Important Things Quotes

“Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.”
― Germany Kent

“It is more important to go slow and gain the lessons you need along the journey then to rush the process and arrive at your destination empty.”
― Germany Kent

“Give importance to those people
who give importance to you.”
― Luffina Lourduraj

“Rejoice in small things and they will continue to grow”
― Slaven Vujic

“I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“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.”
― John Green

“Oftentimes, the most important decisions are the most difficult to make - for, your future, and the future of the generations that come after you, hinges on the outcome of those decisions.”
― J.E.B. Spredemann, Englisch on Purpose

“the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.”
― Megan Jacobson, The Build-up Season

“What can we do to maintain slowness in the face of those periods of busyness? How can we avoid overload, exhaustion, or even burnout?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, my answer is simply to pay attention.
I recognize the way I'm inclined to stay up late, the way I will procrastinate at every option- and instead of spiraling into that overwhelming sense of too much, I check in with myself.
Why am I feeling this way? What has changed? What is there more of? What is there less of?
Become better at recognizing the signs of a looming backslide and pay close attention to the areas of our lives that have the greatest impact, ensuring they never slip too far out of hand.
Nicholas Bate refers to this regular checking in as "taking your MEDS" or more specifically, paying attention to:

- Mindfulness
- Exercise
- Diet
- Sleep

Once I recognize which of these areas has changed, its simpler (not necessarily easier) to recognize the issue and start fixing it. Sometimes the changes aren't in my control, so I need to look for ways of finding slow by creating more opportunities for a moment of deep breathing or paying close attention to whats in front of me. But other times, I've simply lost sight of what works, and its a matter of adding more of these things I've neglected- Mindfulness, simplicity, kindness- and reducing the things that don't serve me well.
Above all else, though, I simply go back to my Why.
I call to mind the foundation of this life I want. The vivid imaging of a life well lived. The loved ones, the generosity, the adventure, and the world I want to leave behind. And if that feels too big, I call to mind even smaller reminders, like the warm pressure of my kids hands in mine, the wholeness of a good conversation with Ben, the lightness of simply sitting quietly.
Our Why is the antidote to overload. Its a call back to the important things and a reminder that we don't need to carry the weight of everything- only those things that are important to us.”
― Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

“Saying no to small things means saying yes to big things.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Be kind to the things which are unimportant for you because at any time life can make them very important for you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things”
― Richie Norton

“Never back, never back!... People don’t like going back, even if they must. I don’t like going back! And I’m not people! But I look back, sometimes, every so often, just to make sure I’m not leaving anything important behind. Like my tail! I can never be sure when I leave my tail behind me by mistake.”
― Emory R. Frie, Wonderland

“You find the most important things in life suddenly. And it's almost funny how ordinary those extraordinary moments feel.”
― Sonali Dev, A Change of Heart

“As he watched her sleeping, under wretched and insufficient blankets, in the cold nights which swooped down after the panting sun-drenched days, his dry heart blossomed in tenderness. . . . To think that he had once esteemed people because they understood Goossens's music or James Joyce's fiction, because they wore sleek clothes and were clever at the use of forks, because they could set up wooden words as a barricade against roaring life!”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“The most important things worth knowing are innate in you already.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“When you are committed to your goals, the universe will treat your case as important.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“It may not be of prime importance, but in a matter like this, where all is unknown, we must take it that everything is important.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?”
― Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game

“It's just that sometimes things that you don't think are important turn out to be.”
― Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin

“keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.”
― Ava

“You can’t do everything, so pick what is important and focus on that relentlessly.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“There is a quiet subtlety about keeping some things personal…
Not everyone will understand and that is fine - but it is important to have a bit of yourself that just stays inside….”
― -debbie lynn

“One of the greatest comedies of this life is that a person thinks that he is doing a very important job while doing unimportant work!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The biggest danger to think you're doing something very important is this: Maybe what you're doing isn't important at all! And to think you're doing something important when you're doing totally unimportant thing is nothing but a great comedy!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“decide on goals. Ask yourself if the acceptance of the idea is more important than getting credit for it.”
― Prof.Salam Al Shereida

“As long as you focus, on what's important to you,
You will be a success, and true, through and through.”
― Ari Gunzburg, Nobody Cares: About Being Yourself

“The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.”
― Daniel Day Lewis

“Almost every form of meaning is constructed. We convince ourselves and each other that this stuff matters because that's how we get stuff done.”
― John Green

“If it is important, do it early in the day. Priorities first; divide up all else in the time that remains.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year