Importance Quotes (page 30)

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• friend
• friends
• being with friends

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

• consistency
• lost
• view

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble…. They can never be solved, but only outgrown…. This ‘outgrowing’, as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger... Carl Jung

• memories
• personality
• memorial

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security. Tove Jansson

• calm
• attention
• attentive

What's important is being attentive. Staying calm, being alert to things around you. Haruki Murakami

• resolutions
• resolutely
• importantly

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other Abraham Lincoln

• importance time
• responsibility
• time

- What is essential is invisible to the eye - the little prince repeated, so as to be sure to remember.- It is the time you lavished on your rose which makes your rose so important.- It is the time I lavished on my rose... - said the little prince, so as to be sure to remember.- Men have forgotten this basic truth - said the fox. - But you must not forget it. For what you have tamed, you become responsible forever. You are responsible for you rose...- I am responsible for my rose.. - the... Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• time
• lost
• innocent

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very important to you. Robert Bolt

• soul
• meetings
• sees

Really important meetings are planned by the soul long before the bodies see each other Paulo Coelho

• world
• party
• she

She had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was most important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship. George Orwell

• positive kids
• humanity
• personal

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance. Jodi Picoult

• manners
• dead
• life

The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that. Arnold Bennett

• engineering
• happen
• imports

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. David Foster Wallace

• giving
• speaks
• speak

To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none. Leo Tolstoy

• dead
• manly
• possibilities

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. George Orwell

• small
• caring
• equality

Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen. Charles de Lint