Beauty and Significance of Smallness

"Always remember that small things add up to big sums"

"Make it a principle that small things pave way to greatness"

When we stop and think, we soon realize that big things get accomplished by dint of many small things. Buildings go up, floor by floor, and by analogy, brick by brick. Long distances are covered kilometer by kilometer, and by analogy step by step. Big amounts are accumulated, thousand upon thousand, and by analogy, peso by peso. We need not to go further. We simply reflect how friendship deepens and how love lasts: by building detail upon, and by ensuring that we throw logs and leaves, twigs and branches into the fire to keep the friendship and the love burning. Big dreams are also realized by dints of continuous and persistent small efforts. In fact, big lasting institutions that survived and gathered strength with time generally started small. Their beginnings are humble. The people to start with them are few. But they compensate for their small number and their humble origin with high-minded commitment and street-smart realism to take care of the small things.

(Taken from "Catholic Digest")