Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.
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 truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters
The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head. . He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.
The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!
What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as they should have been, that it is time to stop and see how they truly are. The making known of malfeasance, whether by the arrest or surrender of the miscreant, or by one of those other forms of confession, flight or suicide, is important as a signal that the euphoria has been overdone. The stage of overtrading may well come to an end. The curtain rises on revulsion, and perhaps discredit.
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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?
What matters is not to know the world but to change it.
Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.
whereas in childhood. . . it was the parents' judgement that mattered to the child, later on the situation becomes reversed: it is then that the opinions of one's grown-up children become what matters, as well as their kindness.
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.
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being. . . what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.
There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.