Quotes on Minor Things

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention