What matters most is rarely loud. It is the quiet courage to choose love, to act with purpose, and to share our light. As Shirley Lord reminds us:
“What really matters is what you do with what you have.”
If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them; words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. ~ Stephen King
What's important is finding out what works for you. ~ Henry Moore
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. ~ Confucius
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. ~ Arthur Balfour
We know it matters not what we have been but this, and always this: what we shall be. ~ Angelina Grimké
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Forest Witcraft
What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too — even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then. ~ Fred Rogers (Dartmouth, 2002)
The things that matter the most in this world can never be held in our hand. ~ Gloria Gaither
All that matters is love and work. ~ Sigmund Freud
I don’t think about whether people will remember me or not. I’ve been an okay person. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve taught people a thing or two. That’s what’s important. ~ Julia Child
Everything passes, they say, but it isn’t so. Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes its mark. ~ Shelagh Delaney, Lion in Love
Above all, discard the irrelevant. ~ Barbara Tuchman
Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant. ~ Victoria Moran