quotes about Small Acts

last updated: November 28, 2023

Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.
-- Maggie O'Farrell

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It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We’ll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.
-- Tim Ryan

Source : Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.31, Hay House, Inc

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“The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.”
“I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.”

Source : Bethenny Frankel (2012). “Skinnydipping: A Novel”, p.341, Simon and Schuster
“Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.”

Source : Evagrius (Ponticus) (1970). “The Praktikos”
“Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives .”
“The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.”
“I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.”
“To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.”
“As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.”
“And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.”
“It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.”

Source : "Jim Chanos Is Finding Short Opportunities All Over The Place" by Rita Nazareth, www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2012.