#matter

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#belly #citizens #ears #fellow #fellow citizens

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#look #matters #see #you

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything

Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned; leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots. ↗

— John Green

#grow-roots #important #leaving #something-matters #life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#blood #close #edges #how #love

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. ↗

— Kris Kristofferson

#end #heart #in the end #laughter #love

Customer is king. I am his treasurer. ↗

— Toba Beta

#money #wealth #money

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#people #respect #respect

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. ↗

— Erwin Schrödinger

#matter #physics #science #science