250 Quotes About What-matters

As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

You will be remembered for making a difference, and not for being the owner of fleets of cars.

Does John Green have a Hollywood Star?A John Green does but he is not me. He was a composer who won five Academy Awards for scoring such movies as An American in Paris and West Side Story. Although today he is mostly forgotten which is a nice reminder that no matter what you do the tides of time will wash away your sandcastles. So there's no sense in reaching for some foolhardy notion of immortality when there is real work to be done with real people, right now.

What matters is not what we do, or to whom we give. What matters is that we let our lives be guided by Love.

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing back then that there isn't here now. There is nothing here now - nothing that matters - that wasn't back then. What matters. Are you a good person? Do you have any love in your heart? What would you do in a given circumstance? It all comes down to something like that.

For the first time I understood something my grandmother told me years before, that it's not our deeds that hurt us, but what they make us believe about ourselves.

All my wealth, power, territories, military might... none of it matters now. She has gone, and with her I shall go.—Final letter of King Delamore to his general

There comes a moment when you realize what matters the most in your life. Let that moment be now and that matter be your love and kindness.