Top 10 Insignificant Things Quotes

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

Thomas Merton

Wisdom, Hurt, Insignificant Things

Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Orison Swett Marden

Money, Spring, Insignificant Things

Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Charles Saatchi

Art, What Matters, Insignificant Things

Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Views, Insignificant Things, Literature

"Goethe's World View: Presented in His Reflections and Maxims".

I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Writing, Exercise, Insignificant Things

"In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

Jens Lekman

Song, Writing, Insignificant Things

Source: pitchfork.com

Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall "big picture" of life.

Joyce Meyer

Attitude, Heart, Insignificant Things

Joyce Meyer (1996). “Enjoying where You are on the Way to where You are Going: Learning how to Live a Joyful Spirit-led Life”

I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

Marcel Proust

Book, Knowledge, Insignificant Things