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• There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Prayer, Nice

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• The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

  Adi Da

  Love, Religious, Truth

  "The Parental Deity and the One to Be Realized" by Adi Da, February 7, 1983.

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• I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

  Richard Bach

  Love, Love Is, And Love

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• He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it. It made him feel better, though he felt perturbed, too, worried that this kiss was wrong. But from his point of view, at fourteen years old, their love was entirely unavoidable. It had started on the day they'd clung to his glass box and kissed in the sea, and now it must go on forever. He felt certain of this.

  David Guterson

  Love, Kissing, Feel Better

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.56, A&C Black

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• The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

  James Keller

  Love, New York, Children

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• Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Long, Young

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1906). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Where is the boundary between your thoughts and feelings and my thoughts and feelings? Where does it end - the outer layer of epidermis? If you look at the body as energy - not matter - maybe there's a possibility we as human beings are more connected to one another than we realize.

  John Astin

  Feelings, Energy, Doe

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• The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts").

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, House

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• Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.

  Bruce Weigl

  Beauty, Beautiful, No Matter What

  Bruce Weigl (1992). “What Saves Us”, p.68, Northwestern University Press

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• Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beauty, Lying, Dark

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.3, Applewood Books

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• The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, People, Cheesy

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Military, Army, Congress

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.768, Library of America

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• "(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Business, Believe, Names

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• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Business, Philosophy

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• Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.

  Ken Wilber

  Fashion, Business, Mean

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• You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

  Andre Agassi

  Success, Business, Believe

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• Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating.

  Peter Robinson

  Business, Creating, Numbers

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• Women, aren't they perfect? It doesn't matter if they're fat, skinny, blond, or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy-oh-boy women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first meet them and get to know them. Ache when you leave them. Joy. Ache. Joy. Ache. Joyachejoyachejoyachejoyache.

  Joe Pesci

  Love, Dream, Boys

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• I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Simple, Roots

  "David Beckham: 'Always have something to look forward to. If you don't have that you lose interest.'" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2013.

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• No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.

  Harvey Rice

  Nature, Imagination, Domain

  Harvey Rice (1890). “Nature and Culture”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Long, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

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• I learned that strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

  John Beecher

  Life, Mind, Made

  "Hear the Wind Blow!: Poems of Protest & Prophecy".

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• We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Hurt, Ocean

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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