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 Grimke

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, they 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 ok 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 it's 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

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