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• Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Important, Littles

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• Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

  John Wooden

  Balance, Important, Next

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• CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Cheer, School

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, October 3, 2017.

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• I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Forever, Important

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• Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Love, Inspirational Life, Cute Life

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

  Robert Henri

  Moving, Thinking, Names

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• The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Creativity, Creative, Solitude

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

  David Nicholls

  Mean, Differences, Important

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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• Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

  Etty Hillesum

  Appreciation, Prayer, Stress

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve.

  N.D. Wilson

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Important

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• There are two important things for full success in life: 1. Don´t tell everything you know.

  Unknown

  Two, Important, Success In Life

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• My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

  Howard Schultz

  Passion, Commitment, Important

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.61, Rodale

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• 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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