“Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.”
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Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Kōnosuke Matsushita (1989) Nurturing Dreams My Path in Life. Quoted in: Tony Kippenberger (2002), Leadership Styles: Leading 08.04. p. 73
“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”
Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)
“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
Very commonly attributed to Eckhart on the internet and some publications, but the earliest source yet located is A Bucket of Surprises (2002) by J. John and Mark Stibbe Variants: If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.
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Variant: If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
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“Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.”
Source: Short fiction, Thomas the Proclaimer (1972), Chapter 6, “The Woman Who Is Sore at Heart Reproaches Thomas” (p. 91)