We All Want To Matter

Always try and be the type of person others want to meet.
( Rose Winfold )

Look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they really are. 
( Suzanne Collins )

Spend much of your time trying to improve yourself, and you will have less time to criticise others.
( Dion Felsrow )

There are many people in the world who enjoy a comfortable life and special privileges, and many more who are condemned to the most miserable, unimaginable living conditions.
None of this has to do with ability, talent or effort.
This is the gap between the wealthy and the poor.
This is the consequences of greed, selfishness, cruelty, a lack of morals, and corruption in high places and our governments.
( Wilfred Soon )

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver.
( Leo Tolstoy )

To share is precious, pure and fair.
( Marvin Gaye )

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
( François de La Rochefoucauld )

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself.
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
( Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. )

What is the purpose in life?
Our problem is that we often equate our purpose with goal-based achievements.
The Universe and Nature isn’t interested in our achievements, just our heart.
When we choose to act out of kindness, compassion and empathy, we are already aligned with our true purpose.
( Rose Winfold )

If you feel pain, you are alive.
If you feel other people’s pain, you are a human being.
( Leo Tolstoy )

Those who talk a lot often have very little to say.
( Len Firswood )

Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day. 
( Bethenny Frankel )

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness.
Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair. 
( Irvin D. Yalom )

All the creatures on earth have their own history, their own hopes and dreams, and their own future.
We should let them be.
( Rose Winfold )

Every lie is a poison.
There are no harmless lies.
Only the truth is safe.
Only the truth gives me consolation, it is the one unbreakable diamond.
( Leo Tolstoy )

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. 
We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark.
( Vicktor Alexander )

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself. 
( Morrissey )

Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow.
A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.
( Andy Andrews )

Life doesn’t have to be so competitive.
There doesn’t need to be so many losers.
( Dion Felsrow )

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
( Leo Tolstoy )

All the while we have cruel, greedy, heartless governments and cruel, greedy, heartless people to serve them, the suffering and unnecessary deaths of innocents will continue.
( Wilfred Soon )

The world is not to be put in order.
The world is order.
It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. 
( Henry Miller )

No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must be the ultimate believer in yourself.
( Pablo )

Today is yours to shape.
Create a masterpiece.
( Steve Maraboli )

False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces.
( Paulo Coelho )

We cannot always get rid of our fears, but we can do the next best thing, ignore them.
( Len Firswood )

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction.
Other peoples’ lives, problems and wants set the course for my life.
Once I realised it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
( Melody Beattie )

Yes, I am silent, but it doesn’t mean I am dumb.
My brain is thinking about things beyond what you can even imagine.

We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present.
We’re always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn’t act as we should have.
Or else we think about the future, about what we’re going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don’t want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.
( Paulo Coelho )

Take time to sit quietly and ponder, and remind yourself what the most important things are in your life.
( Rose Winfold )

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
( Steven Millhauser )

Knowledge is really confined to experience.
The laws of Nature are the laws of our minds, the generalisation of observed facts.
( Thomas Henry Huxley )

Is the answer I’m seeking too hard to find?
What must I do to insure peace of mind?
( Rose Winfold )

Life isn’t about the past and the future, it’s about today.
It’s about five minutes from now and two seconds ago.
It’s moments, you know?
Not years.
Years aren’t what define us.
( Chelsea Fine )

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?
( Stephen Levine )

All that we do, and are, is that not our religion?
( Dion Felsrow )

Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.
No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
( Robin Hobb )

You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe.
You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will.
You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next, and why.
( Kurt Vonnegut )

Time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints.
Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.
( Kate Morton )

We are all guests on this wonderful planet.
Take only what you need, and walk gently as evolved, civilised souls do.

We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game.
Personal goals, on the other hand, leave us on our own, without this habit of useless measurement and comparison.
( Randy Komisar )

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole.
Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
( Billy Sunday )

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life.
It is each little thing that you do that day.
Whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean.
That holds the key to discovering the meaning of life.
I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them.
We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.
( Jack Canfield )

Sometimes our greatest asset is simply our ability to stay with something longer than anyone else.
( Len Firswood )

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. 
( François Duc de La Rochefoucauld )

We must silence our thoughts for a moment and forget all our personal cares and desires, and look in awe at the miracles that surround us.
( R S Hutchison )

If science is to bring happiness and real progress to the world, it needs the warmth of man’s heart just as much as the cold inquisitiveness of his brain.
( Franz Winkler )

Good education provides a good future.
We must pay the men and women who teach our children better than the politicians.
( Rose Winfold )

Humans are just one of the many species on earth.
They may be the most intelligent, but that does not give them the right to abuse others.
( Wilfred Soon )

Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort.
You may never reach that end anyway.
( Adrian Tan )

If we can’t deal with loneliness in a dream, we will never be able to deal with it while awake.
( Dion Felsrow )

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
( Stephen King )

When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
( Corey Taylor )

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you.
Whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life.
To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure.
And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realise you have taught yourself.
( C. JoyBell C. )

Few of us ever live in the present.
We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
( Louis L’Amour )

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
( Sholem Aleichem )

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
( Lyman Bryson )

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow. Is our destined end or way.
But to act, that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
( Henry Wadsworth Longfellow )

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler.
They only need two dates.
The date of my birth and the date of my death.
Between one and another, every day is mine.
( Fernando Pessoa )

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.
( Toba Beta )

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it’s so slow and sweet and everlasting.
( Graham Swift )

The happiness of our life depends upon the quality of our thoughts.
( Len Firswood )

My grandma has fake teeth but her smile is real.
( Jason Myers )

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
( Wilfred Soon )

If humour and rumour are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live in today.
( Toba Beta )

Life is a more complex struggle now.
We no longer live a simple life as it was intended.
( Rose Winfold )

Don’t live by my words, don’t die by them, chew them slowly, digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
( Stanley Victor Paskavich )

The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.
The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.
( Albert Einstein )

When you believe in God, you’ve got to believe in the all-powerful God.
He’s not just God, He’s the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone’s life.
The devil, on the other hand, is a real character that’s trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
( Alice Cooper )

What, man, defy the devil.
Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
( William Shakespeare )