It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. . . If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.
We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.
You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.
Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.
As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness. . .
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.
