“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality”
“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
“What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.”
“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”