Quote by Shirley Hazzard

“Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.”

— Alain de Botton

“They signified what had mattered to you, and what mattered still.”

— Jonathan Stone

“Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.”

— Abram Gitspof

“our version of the same event is also likely to be a reflection upon our own situation and suffering rather than a dispassionate and…

— Karen Armstrong

“It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.”

— Elie Wiesel

“Something struck us as wrong, which only meant that we had not thought of it ourselves.”

— Ben Marcus

“You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn’t, and how much, and try not to be scared of the…

— Lev Grossman

“We were the same, in the ways that mattered.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.”

— Adam Levin

“The geography of the thing wasn’t the point; it didn’t matter where they were: there was still too much space between them.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Focusing strictly on the logical cause-effect relationships was what allowed us to see what was really going on.”

— Ray Dalio