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"No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances."
"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."
"No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you."
"Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to."
"All that matters is what we do for each other."
"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it."
"No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now."
"It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world."
"One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on."
"Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?"
"Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance"
"This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you."
"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."
"No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it."
"I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had."
"Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves."
"There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives."
"Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it."
"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."