Matter Quotes - Page 37

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

No matter how far apart we are, we are all under and looking at the same sky.

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.

Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.

Keep going don't worry about results. If you love it why does it matter?

No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything that's going on in the community.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.