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That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.
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.
It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
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.
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.
Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?
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.
The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
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 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 is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.
What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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!
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)
I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.
What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.
You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.
I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.
What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?
Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?
Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.
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?
What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.
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.
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.
Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.