Things That Matter Quotes (page 8)

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• mind
• pain
• hope

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you. Charles Bukowski

• your life
• inspirational
• life

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters. Audrey Hepburn

• thanks
• giving
• love

"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior C. S. Lewis

• challenge
• top
• busy

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters. Lori Greiner

• thinking
• humanity
• universe

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• god
• missing
• manly

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. Loren Eiseley

• great
• greatness
• matters

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters. Franka Potente

• learning
• importance time
• family

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them. Robert Sternberg

• buts
• really
• matter

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you. Marissa Mayer

• time
• thinking
• value

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. James Hilton

• personal
• colorful
• white

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake. Gordon Parks

• stress
• life
• caring

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams. Marilu Henner

• best
• past
• time

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now. Ziggy Marley

• play
• god
• good

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. Ray Manzarek

• vision
• thing
• first things

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. Joe Slovo