Matter Quotes - Page 17

• Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Heart, Happy Life, Soul

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• We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Public Opinion, Experts, Mastery

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• It doesn't matter if it's fair, that's just the reality of it.

  Jim Zalesky

  Reality, Fairs, Ifs

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• Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

  Douglas Bader

  Strong, Wings, Needs

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.22, Pen and Sword

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• I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

  Shashi Tharoor

  India, Facts, Bones

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• For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing.

  Esther Hicks

  Art, People, Decision

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• I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel that the outer strength and the outer life are everything. I do not agree with them. There is an inner life; there is spirit, and my ability to lift these heavy weights proves that it can work in matter as well.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Believe, People, Weight

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, Infinity

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• Prana is implicate to matter but explicate to mind; mind is implicate to prana but explicate to soul; soul is implicate to mind but explicate to spirit; and the spirit is the source and suchness of the entire sequence.

  Ken Wilber

  Wisdom, Soul, Mind

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm”, p.178, Shambhala Publications

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• I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Boots, Life Is, Heavy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Running, Thinking

  "Analysis: Biden Choice Shows Obama's Pragmatism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 23, 2008.

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• We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Cost, Speak, No Matter What

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• Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Ego, Doe, Might

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• Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month--emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Moving, Dust

  Manly Palmer Hall (2005). “Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.232, Lulu.com

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

  Garth Brooks

  Different, Might, Moments

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• Now Jesus don't like killin'/No matter what the reason's for.

  John Prine

  Jesus, No Matter What, Reason

  Song: Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore

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• In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

  Charlie Munger

  Motivational, Wise, Zero

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• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Attitude, Organization

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Anger, Hatred

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• The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

  Brian Chesky

  People, Stuff, Life Is

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• Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

  Tim Ferriss

  Recipes, Cooks, Models

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• Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

  Robert Plant

  Looks, Materialism, Paint

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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