Matters
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
What really matters is what's on the inside.
If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
I've learned that you have to make careful choices because everything has an impact. I've also learned that you can't please everyone in life, so please yourself and figure out what really matters.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it's all that matters.
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.