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To miniaturize is also to conceal.
Never shrink from making a difference.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
Reducing also results in a simplified lifestyle that allows you to focus on quality versus quantity and experiences versus stuff.
For 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
The more you subtract, the more you add,
So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.
The greater part performed achieves the less.
We increase whatever we praise.
Press thy suit, yet with moderation;
A blade of grass cannot pierce a mountain.
If the sum that illumines the world
Were to dry nigher, the world would be consumed
Thoughts must be harder.
Heart braver.
Courage the greater.
As our strength gets less.
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
Small to greater matters must give way.
Increase definitely attracts
I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
Whatever you focus on expands,
I learn a little more and I change a little bit
Less feelings means less goodbyes.
All I am is less than I was. And I can't ever be more
The more I think of you, the less I think of you.
We've discovered a way to dilute
Small things lead to big changes.
A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room.
Time is a diminishing factor
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
The darkness diminishes by dawn of light.
Joys divided are increased.
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
Let there be more darkness
the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip.
Wait, it gets duller.
Small things become small folks.
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
In quietness the soul expands,
The less you need, the more you live
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.
Many littles make a much.
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
I've always thought that less was a lot more.
I'd rather have less time than I think, than less think than I have time.
Everything becomes more and more itself. Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness; but your darkness cannot now infect our light.
The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Increase is a crowd puller
Of course I was already familiar with that saying by Mies van der Rohe, Less is more, but I hadn't appreciated before just how sensual less could be, how rich and voluptuous.
Less is more, in prose as in architecture.
We are magnifying the messenger and consequently minimizing the message.
But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.
As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.
I did not love less; indeed I loved more. But the weight of love, like that of an arm thrown tenderly across a chest, becomes little by little too heavy to bear.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.
The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.
That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,
the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.
Little things affect little minds.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.
He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.
When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.
It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.
Excess weakens the spirits.
Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
Clearing away the excess whittles life down to its bare essence, revealing purity of heart, integrity of character and inspiration of purpose,
Imagination shrinks from the consequences.
If you take more than you give
you get less of what you can take
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
People diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.
If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more
Love decreases when it ceases to increase.
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Whatever you focus upon, increases.
The more you give, the less you need.
A burden shared is a burden halved.
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
We must become lighter beings.
I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.
To say more is to say less.
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].
More Weight
-Giles Corey-
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
Small things change a life. Change lives.
She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.