It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing Category: Triviality, Pettiness
How full of trifles everything is! It is only ones thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. – Wallace Stevens Category: Triviality, Pettiness
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. – Richard Armour Category: Triviality, Pettiness
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene Category: Courage
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. – Thomas Jefferson Category: Experience
I mean, were really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. – Michael Pollan Category: relationship
