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"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing."
"Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy."
"Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad."
"I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art."
"Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race."
"The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history."
"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."
"When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus."
"Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you."
"My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is."
"There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious."
"[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important."
"If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution."
"Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent."
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
"We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us."
"They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born."
"The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues."
"'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people."
"It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation."
