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“Let us not overlook vital things because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. ” Elon Musk
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Asking questions were the most important thing.” Franz Kafka, The Trial
“I'm sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It's like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.” Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything….” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“trifles make the sum of life.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“Only the children know what they are looking for . . . They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Time is more important to me than distance.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“If life must not be taken too seriously—then so neither must death.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.” John Irving, The Cider House Rules
“If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.” Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“Love . . . Why I don't like the word is that it means too much to me, far more than you can understand” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interests are at stake.” Aristotle, Politics
“the important thing was to love rather than to be loved” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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