'You see, Momo,' he told her one day, 'it's like this: Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept.'
He gazed silently into space before continuing. 'And then you start to hurry,' he went on. 'You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.'
He pondered a while. Then he said, 'You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.'
Again he paused for thought before adding, 'That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.'
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Small ThingsCharles BukowskiPeople never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.
TimeMichael Ende in Momo - und die grauen HerrenGo find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.
Mike ShinodaI began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Roald DahlThe secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
John C. MaxwellIt's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.
Anna KendrickTomorrow is gonna be just like today, and I know that because today is just like yesterday.
Yesterday, TodayAmy Sosa in Superstore, Season 1 Episode 1Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
Donald RumsfeldI think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
Small ThingsPaula ColeThe greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence Nightingale