Famous What Matters Words
397 What Matters quotes by 336 unique authors
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Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind and tossing billow…
— Amy Carmichael
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God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
— Francis Chan
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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.
— Haruki Murakami
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I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing…
— Louise Penny
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In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the…
— James Frey
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This stuff doesn't matter. What matters is what you do with it." Sara snaps the highlighter cap on. "I try not to think about how…
— Susane Colasanti
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I…
— Samuel Beckett
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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
— Marilynne Robinson
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Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all…
— Bell Hooks
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When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a…
— Seth Godin
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Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
— Fernando Pessoa
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It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy.…
— Sara Gran
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The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even…
— Michael Pollan
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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.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps…
— Haruki Murakami
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There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
— George R. R. Martin
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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…
— Miley Cyrus
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Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in…
— Orson Scott Card
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Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very…
— Anne Rice
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To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.
— James Patterson
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The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.…
— Peter Drucker
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