"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend."

Dunphy, Elizabeth on things and little things
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

Edelman, Marian Wright on things and little things
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"All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little."

Hearn, Lafcadio on things and little things   

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small."

Lao-Tzu on things and little things   

"Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum."

Sontag, Susan on things and little things
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"Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

Wilder, Laura Ingalls on things and little things   

"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love."

Mother Teresa on things and little things
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"I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on things and little things
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"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on things and little things   

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Carnegie, Dale on bores and boredom
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"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe."

Marden, Orison Swett on happiness   

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

Carnegie, Dale on words
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"Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments."

Kelty, Mary Ann on things and little things
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