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“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”

“She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.”

Shows Asks Voice Answers Picks Garden Glasses Tales Smoke Sand Village Grain Smooth Fragments Like Her Puff Chimneys Grains Of Sand Timber

Author:David Almond

“As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.”

Ifs Knows Feels Littles Said Enough Moving Form Planets Moon Mass Sand Gravity Tides Drag Grain Our Planet Back And Forth Grains Of Sand

Author:Dan Brown

“For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.”

Looks Heart Found Heaven Stars Lord Path Planets Proud Skills Draws Regard Humble Sand Grain Crushed Lofty Afar Grains Of Sand Expanse Inquisitive

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

“Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.”

Lasts Stars Taxes Obedience Sand Grain Almighty Grains Of Sand

Author:Oswald Chambers

“But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.”

Knows World Needs Evil One Thing Dangerous Balance Shakes Sand Good And Evil Grain Wizards Equilibrium Pebbles Grains Of Sand Summoning

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand”

Thinking World Whole Values Bits Planets Grew Essence Deeds Tiny Whole World Sand Grain My Thoughts Grains Of Sand Mildew

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.”

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.”

Persons Whole Moments Earth Universe Effort Accepting Activity Eternal Merit Realms Dimensions Sand Grain Sentient Beings Grains Of Sand

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.”

Hands Sound Voice Interest Answers Equal Messages Weight Sand Mail Grain Grains Of Sand Clapping

Author:Meg Cabot

“...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?”

Ifs Want Bits Position Ocean Sand Climbs What If Grain Shells Pearls Oysters Grains Of Sand

Author:Robin McKinley

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.”

Ifs Firsts Important Helping Feelings Would Be Universe Love Is Love You Mines Universal Let Me Bigger Starting Excited Beach Help Me Sand Grain Interrupted Verge Grains Of Sand Buttercup

Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.”

Ifs World Enough Whole Sand Grain Smallest Grains Of Sand

Book:Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)

Source: Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)

“I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Break Middle Tasks Structure Bounds Necks Sand Grain Grains Of Sand Hourglass

Author:Dale Carnegie

“It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.”

Enough Stars Sky Beach Sand Grain Grains Of Sand Stars In The Sky

Book:Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.”

People Knows World Persons Sometimes Purpose Bits Knowing Amount Intelligence Ignorant Desert Beach Sand Grain Clinging Grains Of Sand

Author:Stephen Fry

“Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.”

Moving Mountain Tiny Sand Grain Move Mountains Grains Of Sand

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom - so deep that not even light could touch it. And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling. Like stars.”

Light Stars Black Water Dark Clear Impossible Ocean Blue Depth Bottom Tiny Miles Enormous Sand Grain Lit Colony Sparkling Grains Of Sand Twinkling Clear Water Dark Blue

Author:Fuyumi Ono

“‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.”

World Earth Parent Differences Existence Sky Brother Plant Cease Emptiness Sand Realising Grain Schemes Worth It Leafs Confined Demise Grains Of Sand

Author:Umera Ahmed

“In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.”

Men World May Would Be Faces Stars Challenges Millions Sun Planets One Day Thousand Seven Bitter Labels Desert Sand Grain Galaxy Attempting Eighty Ants Grains Of Sand

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity.”

Littles Age Time Water Land Minutes Ocean Rivers Eternity Environmental Humble Pleasant Sand Grain Drop Of Water Grains Of Sand Drops In The Ocean

Author:Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.”

Soul Able Born Destiny Knowing Learning Fire Magic Bird Clouds Forests Educated Sand Grain Our Destiny Comets Grains Of Sand Forest Fires

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

“Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.”

Thinking May Enough Remember Science Brain Machines Mathematics Disaster Mathematical Wheels Sand Grain Sublime Distrust Gears Delicacy Grains Of Sand Pascal

Book:The garden of Epicurus

Source: The garden of Epicurus

“I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable that could be regarded as a pearl, and I can assure those who worked with me it was you who made the pearls and I was merely the grain of sand, the irritant to produce the pearls.”

People Thinking Has Beens Made I Can Science Values Produce Research Valuable Sand Grain Pearls Grains Of Sand Irritants

Author:Nicholas Kurti

“Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?”

Knows World Science Fall Chance Path Creation Determination Determined Sand Grain Molecules Grains Of Sand Creation Of The World

Book:Les Miserables Volume Two

Source: Les Miserables Volume Two

“Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.”

People World Country Hard Ocean Empty Eternity Beach Emptiness Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Grant Morrison

“The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.”

“Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.”

Sometimes Mountain Sand Climbing Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Carrie Underwood

“The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”

Earth Universe Stars Numbers Planets Beach Sand Grain Planet Earth Grains Of Sand

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!”

Earth Space Sand Overwhelming Spheres Grain Boundless Grains Of Sand

Book:The Modern Régime

Source: The Modern Régime

“When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”

Heart Self Seems Destruction Bigger Sand Grain Self Destruction Grains Of Sand Self Destruct

Author:John Cheever

“I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Ideas Running Values Passing Passings Sand Grain Accumulation Time Passing Time Passes Sidelines Grains Of Sand

Author:Tori Amos

“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”

Knows Knowledge Beach Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Ivan Panin

“The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.”

Divine Sand Grain Reeds Grains Of Sand

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.”

Sand Grain Smallest Grains Of Sand

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”

Life Is Our Lives Ocean Sand Infinity Grain Indifferent Grains Of Sand

Book:The Suitcase: A Novel

Source: The Suitcase: A Novel

“Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.”

Hands Return Sand Slips Grain Grains Of Sand

Book:Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.”

Source: The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad

“If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.”

“Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”

Stories Hands Next Generations Block Sand Grain Next Generation Grains Of Sand Brushing

Author:Raquel Cepeda

“The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.”

Looks Waiting Wind Fingers Sand Grain Escaping Vanishing Grains Of Sand

Author:Fábio Moon

“Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.”

World Heart Light Lying Sun Thousand Ocean Hundred Mirrors Seeds Sand Atoms Grain Particles Raindrops Grains Of Sand

Author:Mahmud Shabistari

“I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible part of reality, like emotions for example, like feelings. This is our perception of the world, but God is-as William Blake said-in a grain of sand and in a flower. This energy is everywhere.”

World Believe Said Feelings Reality Energy Emotion Fronts Example Flower Perception Invisible Visible Sand Grain Blake Grains Of Sand Perception Of The World

Author:Paulo Coelho

“There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.”

World Way Kind Seems Stars Numbers Known Right Now Spring Picks Tiny Beach Sand Grain Odds Naive Stoops Grains Of Sand

Author:Hugh Downs

“I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?”

Ifs Kind Might Remember Life Is Next Wonder Worry Influence Sand Grain Pledge Oysters Grains Of Sand Tornadoes Flashy

Author:Fred Rogers

“Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.”

Environment Mountain Waste Environmental Sand Infinity Grain Smallest Ecology Earth Day Nature And Environment Save Mother Earth Grains Of Sand World Environment

Author:Eric Knight

“Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.”

Earth Water Wealth Common Poverty Gratitude Miracle Wine Workers Noble Paradise Sand Contentment Grain Smallest Pearls Raindrops Grains Of Sand

Author:Kaspar Hauser

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.”

Purpose Grows Mountain Sand Grain Strain Shrinks Grains Of Sand Higher Purpose

Book:The Greatest Secret In The World

Source: The Greatest Secret In The World

“I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.”

World Sea Infinite Sand Shore Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Khalil

“With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.”

Humans Moving Human Beings Attitude Mountain Sand Grain Smallest Crushed Move Mountains Grains Of Sand Wrong Attitude

Author:Jim Rohn

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