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"Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
"Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!"
"When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter."
"Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter."
"The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter."
"You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters."
"Results matter! They matter to your credibility."
"Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside."
"No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience."
"Spend time doing things that matter."
"It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them."
"If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much."
"No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste."
"No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past."
"When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends."
"Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?"
"And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music."
"What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you."
"It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing."
"It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack."
