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“The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.”

Source: Sleeping in Flame

“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.”

People Trying Mean Doe Important Real Ends Facts Pain Hurt Easier Truth Is Important Things Acknowledge Get Better Good Times Broken Heart It Hurts Doing You Bad Times Disservice

Author:John Green

“Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.”

People Trying Important Remember Love You And Love Important Things

Book:Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

Source: Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“The most important thing you do in your life is to die.”

Important Life Is Dies Important Things

Author:Timothy Leary

“Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice" "No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in. You make your own choices, Kira, and you can't let anyone ever take that away from you.”

People Knows Important Different Matter Purpose Choices Fate Keys Important Things Locked Tied Away From You Kira Make Your Own Choices

Author:Dan Wells

“Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your grandpa," said Gregor. It seemed like the best and most important thing to say at the moment. "It's your grandpa." Luxa blinked. A tiny tear formed at the corner of her eye. A battle took place on her face as she tried to stop the feelings rising up inside her. The feelings won, and to Gregor's great relief, she ran into Vikus's arms.”

Ifs Said Stills Important Moments Feelings Eye Faces Tears Arms Battle Important Things Corners Stranger Tiny Staring Ran Rising Relief Her Eyes Frozen Grandpa Rising Up

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.”

Knows World Believe Important Prove Important Things Don't Believe Prove It

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out”

People Firsts Important Bigs Might Beautiful Left Rocks Fit Important Things Valuable Beach Live Life Best Things Jars Left Out

Book:Sam's letters to Jennifer

Source: Sam's letters to Jennifer

“He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.”

Said Stills Important Feet Important Things Ignorant

Book:Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes

Source: Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

“the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.”

Looks Important Play Roles Important Things

Book:If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.”

Thinking Knows Littles Important Bigs Can Do Easier Important Things Little Things Big Things Urgent Trivial Things

Author:John Cleese

“Next to love, balance is the most important thing.”

Important Next Balance Important Things Balanced Life

Author:John Wooden

“CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed.”

Important Hands School Plans Brother Important Things Honestly Priorities My Brother Cheer Apocalypse Carter Microphones Drones Sadie Sadie Kane

Author:Rick Riordan

“I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.”

Thinking Important Seems Forever Dying Important Things Corners

Author:Chris Crutcher

“Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.”

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.”

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Author:Robert Henri

“The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.”

Important Creativity Creative Solitude Important Things Creative Life

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.”

Knows World Mean Littles Important Whole Bits Differences Little Bit Important Things Changing The World

Author:David Nicholls

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Kind Important Done Today Individual Important Things Impact Bunch Block Collectives Improving Trash Tuesday Writer's Block Push Ups Trash Cans Always Improving

Author:N.D. Wilson

“If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.”

Ifs Thinking World May Littles Important Seems Can Do Important Things Being Yourself You Can Do It Kinder Just Be Yourself

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

People World Life Inspirational Trying Has Beens Important Motivational Success Hope Fear Leadership Justice Healing Courage Learning Self Esteem Positive Giving Up Determination Important Things Perseverance Persistence Accomplished Hopeless Happy Life Persist Bad Ass Stay Strong Keep Trying Insperational No Hope Having Hope Without Hope Determination And Success Will And Determination There Is Hope Do Not Give Up Determination Perseverance Courage Strength Never Give Up On Something Perseverance And Determination Inspirational Perseverance Determination And Persistence Great Perseverance Having Strength Just Stay Strong Just Give Up Perseverence Inspirational Sales I Will Never Give Up Never Give In Persistence Inspirational Never Ever Give Up I Never Give Up Great Sales Never Give Up Hope Sales People I Will Not Give Up Strength And Perseverance Never Give Up Inspirational Self Perseverance Drive And Determination Perseverance Motivational Trying To Succeed Going Gets Tough Short Never Give Up Motivational Keep Going Courage And Perseverance Inspiring Sales Inspirational Selling Not Giving Up Hope Don't Give Up Hope

Book:How to enjoy your life and your job

Source: How to enjoy your life and your job

“My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.”

Important Passion Commitment My Family Important Things My Passion

Book:Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul

Source: Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul

“Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”

Important Important Things Exhausting Being Wrong

Author:John Irving

“So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.”

Important Interesting Our Lives Important Things Stranger Involvement

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.”

People Ifs World Has Beens Important Knowing Important Things Intimacy Closest

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement

“...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.”

Important Ends Important Things Stand Alone

Book:The Wisdom of Life

Source: The Wisdom of Life

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”

Ifs Important Order Stupid Goes On Important Things Wasting Your Time

Author:Alan Watts

“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.”

Ifs Thinking Want Important Care Planets Eating Shots Important Things Take Care Cruelty Meat Ecology Vegetarianism Famine Staggering Eating Meat Save The Planet

Author:Paul McCartney

“It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.”

Important Moments Fiction Connections Important Things Irrelevant

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.”

Years Important Life Is Important Things Things In Life

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.”

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that.”

“Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.”

Important Sometimes Important Things Dancing Partners

Author:Jack Canfield

“The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.”

Knows Important Purpose Choices Bravery Important Things

Book:Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)

Source: Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)

“The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.”

Knows Important Helping Spiritual Spirit Grows Bears Praying Honor Important Things Fruit Live Life Spiritual Wisdom Knowing God

Book:Let God's Word Empower Your Prayers: A Devotional

Source: Let God's Word Empower Your Prayers: A Devotional

“There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.”

Important Worry Self Esteem Important Things Stranger

Author:Dennis Lehane

“The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.”

“The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.”

Knows Giving Important Moving Dies Universe Sin Knowing Love You Son Give Me Encouragement Important Things Creator Moving Forward Empowering Owners Relationship With God

Author:Benjamin Carson

“It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.”

Ifs Trying Important Real Easy Trouble Safety Important Things Try Your Best

Author:Daniel Handler

“You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.”

Trying Mean Persons Important Sometimes Brain Failing Important Things Valuable Keep Trying Surgeons Brain Surgeons Valuable Person

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.”

Important Important Things Things In Life Most Important Things In Life

Book:Three Weeks With My Brother

Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

“The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.”

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Author:Holly Black

“Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma”

May Important Walks Known Blood Crazy Planets My Family Important Things Forbidden Sibling My Siblings Drive Me Crazy

Book:Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

“And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

People Ifs Humans Long Doe Important Enough Happens Kids Today Lasts Life Is Dies Human Beings Tomorrow Lucky Important Things Long Life Being There Before And Now

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.”

People Knows Way Want Mean Said Important Hard Done Hours Forever Wonderful Week Months Six Important Things Bills Come Up Things To Do Gates Wonderful Things Six Months Working With Others

Author:Steve Jobs

“There will always be a part of you that misses her. You'll see something that reminds you of her and want to tell her about it, only to realize she's not there anymore. Then you'll feel her loss all over again. (Ravyn) You're not helping me, Ravyn. (Jack) I know, buddy. But you will eventually make peace with yourself, and that's the most important thing. Eventually, you'll even be able to smile again when you think about her. (Ravyn)”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Important Helping Able Realizing Loss Missing Important Things Buddy Making Peace

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.”

Ifs Important Matter Reason Heaven Existence Sky Rocks Comfort Angel Important Things Winter Clouds Flying Explanation Paradise Sole Precipice Brida

Author:Paulo Coelho

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