Every life, properly understood, is compelling. Anyone aspiring to be an artist knows there’s no such thing as why-bother or nothing-to-see.
—David Shields
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there’s no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
—Anne Lamott
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
—Ray Bradbury
We never remember what is important, only what matters to us.
—Suzanne Finnamore in Otherwise Engaged
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
—Marlene Dietrich
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
—Luis Bunuel
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
—Blaise Pascal
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
—Oscar Wilde
To say that we are all equally important seems a redundancy, and yet how often do any of us act as if it were true?
—Jean Vanier
No human thing is of serious importance.
—Plato
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
—M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth