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• If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

  Lights

  Moving, Doing What You Love, Next

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• It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Perfect, World, Perceive

  "Being Precious: Gabourey Sidibe" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 7, 2010.

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• For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

  Craig Thompson

  Soul, World, Gains

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• People always ask me, 'You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?'. It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Beautiful, Girl, Powerful

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• And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

  Plato

  Firsts, Steps, Shapes

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• But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

  Samuel Beckett

  Who I Am, Knowing, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.219, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, May, Kind

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• What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

  John Ortberg

  Accomplishment, Achieve, Persons

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• We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

  Angelina Grimke

  Matter, Has Beens, Knows

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• What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

  Barack Obama

  Matter, Wells

  "The Tragedy: A Teachable Moment For Soul-Searching" by Jill Lynne, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

  Rick Warren

  Differences, Long, Making A Difference

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Mind, Too Much

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• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Absence, Matter

  1981 Midnight's Children,'Alpha and Omega', bk.2.

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• What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ideas, Needs, Purpose

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.

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• Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

  Pablo Casals

  Talent, Responsible, Vain

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• It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Prayer, Knowing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

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• As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.

  Mark Nepo

  Essence, Earth, Erode

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• The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Journey, Keys

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

  Tom Hardy

  Decision, Plans, Who You Are

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• At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Live Your Life, The End Of The Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Earth, Hardest, Matter

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.147, Penguin

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• What's important is finding out what works for you.

  Thomas Moore

  Goal, Important, Findings

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• What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things – the Bond…Every conflict that occurs – whether between husband and wife, social or racial groups – is resolved only when we can fully see and embrace the space – the Bond – between us.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Husband, Space, Wife

  "The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us". Book by Lynne McTaggart, 2011.

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• Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.

  Victoria Moran

  People, Way, Irrelevant

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• The heart is what matters most of all

  Kris Kristofferson

  Heart, Matter

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