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• Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

  Stephen King

  Life, Stars, Lying

  Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.

  Deepak Chopra

  Choices, Matter, Instant

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• Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Children, Pain, Lying

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  Earl Weaver

  Littles, Matter, Fields

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• There is no darkness in this place that we're bound
  Love is the only thing that matters

  Dan Fogelberg

  Love Is, Darkness, Matter

  Song: Icarus Ascending, Album: Full Circle, 2003

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• Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

  Toni Braxton

  Mean, Causes, World

  Song: You Mean The World To Me, Album: Toni Braxton, 1993

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• It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Smart, Want Something, People

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Mean

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• As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

  Seth Godin

  Perfection, Might, Matter

  "No one reads a comic strip because it's drawn well". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.

  Colum McCann

  Art, Recovery, Joy

  "Author, author: Stories are there to be told" by Colum McCann, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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• SINCE OUR GOALS REPRESENT THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST TO US, SHOULDN'T WE FIGHT FOR THEM?

  Michael Hyatt

  Fighting, Goal, Matter

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• The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand.

  Gloria Gaither

  Hands, What Matters, World

  Gloria Gaither (1997). “Because He Lives: The Stories and Inspiration Behind the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.

  Francis Chan

  What Matters, Different, Gifts And Talents

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.90, David C Cook

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• The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

  Richard Bach

  Quality, Earth, Our Love

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

  Dave Ramsey

  Legacy, Passionate, Matter

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• Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

  Todd Strasser

  Differences, People, Matter

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• The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

  Jorge Posada

  Team, Winning, Matter

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• To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

  Jessica Chastain

  Beautiful, Kings, People

  "Watch Jessica Chastain’s Impassioned Speech For Diversity In Hollywood" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Swings

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• But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

  Charlie Sheen

  Funny, Sleep, Sheep

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• Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Drama, Theatre

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• I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

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• Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

  Joss Whedon

  Emotional, Two, Matter

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• Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

  Joe Meno

  World, Matter, Terrible

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