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Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
I wish you a tea and jammies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
I will give my body to my love and celebrate
that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves.
We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point.
This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Rainbows and butterflies are themselves beautiful and highly symbolic,
but they are also representative of
all the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot (Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890)
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
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