Things That Matter Quotes

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

I’ve reached a point in my life where it’s the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I’m happier with that.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

Here’s what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it’s like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It’s like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that’s the only thing that matters.

SINCE OUR GOALS REPRESENT THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST TO US, SHOULDN’T WE FIGHT FOR THEM?

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

There is no darkness in this place that we’re bound
Love is the only thing that matters

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn’t matter. Because I think it’s pretty much the only thing that matters.

As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.

There’s never an easy route to the things that matter.

For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don’t matter.

Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don’t.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It’s informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.