Important Things Quotes - Page 18

• Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

  John Irving

  Important, Exhausting, Being Wrong

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• So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Important, Stranger

  "The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje " by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2011.

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• One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

  Anthony Powell

  Knowing, People, Important

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement”, University of Chicago Press

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• ...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Important, Stand Alone, Ends

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.20, Cosimo Classics

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• If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

  Alan Watts

  Stupid, Order, Important

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• If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Important

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• It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

  Neil Gaiman

  Important, Connections, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Years, Things In Life, Important

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• While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, Years, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baby, Thinking, People

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• Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

  Jack Canfield

  Dancing, Important, Sometimes

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• The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

  Dan Wells

  Choices, Bravery, Important

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

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• The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.

  Stormie Omartian

  Spiritual, Live Life, Honor

  Stormie Omartian (2016). “Let God's Word Empower Your Prayers: A Devotional”, p.9, Harvest House Publishers

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• There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

  Dennis Lehane

  Self Esteem, Worry, Important

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• The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

  Alicia Keys

  Fashion, Inspirational Life, Rocks

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• It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

  Daniel Handler

  Real, Safety, Important

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• Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Things In Life, Important, Most Important Things In Life

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Stupid, Home

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• Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Sibling, Crazy, Blood

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Kids, Long, People

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• I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, People, Forever

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• There will always be a part of you that misses her. You'll see something that reminds you of her and want to tell her about it, only to realize she's not there anymore. Then you'll feel her loss all over again. (Ravyn) You're not helping me, Ravyn. (Jack) I know, buddy. But you will eventually make peace with yourself, and that's the most important thing. Eventually, you'll even be able to smile again when you think about her. (Ravyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loss, Thinking, Missing

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• As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Winter, Clouds

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• Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Important, Sometimes, Ends

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.101, Penguin

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• Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kids, Important, Safe

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