Mattered Quotes (page 86)

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• life
• dream
• dreaming

He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered. J. K. Rowling

• leaving
• enough
• had enough

If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never had enough money to sit in a barrera can make a quick rush from above and occupy your expensive seat as you go out taking your pre-conceived opinions with you. Ernest Hemingway

• imagination
• look
• good

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction. Paulo Coelho

• memories
• memorial
• cease

Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become. Italo Calvino

• time
• matter
• timing

It is not time that matters, but you yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• humorous
• brainly
• brain

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack. Dr. Seuss

• house
• end
• writing

But in the end I understood this language. I understood it, I understand it, all wrong perhaps. That is not what matters. It told me to write the report. Does this mean I am freer now than I was? I do not know. I shall learn. Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining. Samuel Beckett

• seen
• you
• were

You were seen, you were heard and you matter. Oprah Winfrey

• life
• promise
• loss

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. Suzanne Collins

• them
• things
• thing

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them. Robert Bresson

• presented
• talkative
• presentation

and no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present. Jane Austen

• stupid
• die
• discipline

in a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth Robert A. Heinlein

• imperfection
• judgemental
• may

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. P. D. James

• should
• concerns
• concerning

In this matter, you should not concern yourself for my sake. Amy Tan

• personality
• red
• dream

There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart. Michael Connelly