Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Priority is a function of context.
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person
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