Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Every moment I choose to write about is one I have deemed important enough to dwell inside of and share with others. I am holding this moment up to the light and saying, "Wow, will you look at that?"

Little things are great to little men.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

Nothing of importance happened today.

Nothing is important.

We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things.

There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.

Small does not mean insignificant.

That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

Trifles make the sum of life.

There are no little things.