small wonders Quotes

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

Good things come in small packages.

Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

I'd like to think little miracles do happen in 'Angel Cake.'

What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

When you are a child, you often stare too closely at the wrong thing. I remember the first time I was taken to Yankee Stadium. Someone had spilled something sweet earlier in the day and the ground was covered with ants. I spent the whole game staring at the ants, and that was more fascinating than the game.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.