Unimportant Quotes - Page 12

• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Taken, Meals, Midst

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• Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Insecure, Religion

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• I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

  Sai Baba

  Hunger And Thirst, Slave, Treats

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• The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Past, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Looks, World

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• After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was this ritualistic condemnation of terrorism. I'm not saying that that's unimportant, but it became the case that the Muslim people in the United States or in other parts of the world were inclusively taking on responsibility for things that they had nothing to do with. Of course, it's very important that a community define its moral boundaries. A community also must acknowledge what it can and cannot control.

  Haroon Moghul

  Responsibility, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Feelings, Fever

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Teacher, Ideas, Important

  "Curative Education" by Rudolf Steiner, lect. 2, June 26, 1924.

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• Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Thinking, Self

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• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

  Og Mandino

  Life, Change, Real

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.85, Bantam

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• Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Science, Men

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• I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

  Nigella Lawson

  Jesus, Atheist, Believe

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• Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Accomplishment

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.19, Random House

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• We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Player, Games

  "Reclaim Your Mind". Part of the Terence McKenna's lecture "Eros and the Eschaton", www.youtube.com. 1984.

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

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• The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Feet, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.130, Discovery House

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