What Matters Quotes
There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.
And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart
To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.
Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.
Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.
What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job.
We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light goes on.
I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.
What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.
What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.
I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.
I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.
No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.
Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.
What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.
Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.
Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.
when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.
We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.
The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!
Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.
She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.