Importance Quotes

“Your mental health is more important than everything.”
― Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower

“I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“If I can draw you the right way, maybe you'll be able to see yourself through my eyes," I said, "If all goes well, of course."

"That's why we needs pictures."

"You're right--that's why we need pictures. Or literature, or music, or anything of that sort.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Don’t search for something grand, as your values might be hidden behind something that you discard as ordinary.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance.”
― Mario Puzo, Omerta

“Life is about doing things that matter first, not last.”
― Richie Norton

“We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors attached too much importance to these ill-understood arcana of the night-side of nature, we have attached too little.”
― Catherine Crowe, The Night Side of Nature

“Most people’s lives are to the average person not important like, or as important as, their opinions about him or her.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised; and the rememberer and the remembered; and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree; no not anyone with himself; and the whole earth too is a point.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got all of our fingers wrapped around a bunch of other things that are not important.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A great library is anything and everything. It is not for its current custodians to judge what the future will find to be of importance, and it is this eclecticism that gives it the mystique, that is the wonder of it.”
― Penelope Lively, Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

“History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed, shock the complacent and intransigent into self-reflection, and inspire feats of human perseverance and will.”
― Seth Garfield, Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988

“As far my priorities are concerned, there’s the front of the line, the end of the line, and everything in-between. And as far as God is concerned, He spends most of His time waiting to get in line.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You Are So Valuable... So Important... Don't Devalue Yourself by Throwing Yourself at Folks Who Merely Tolerate You!”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Risk It, Be Different

“To Maintain Your Relevance In Relationships, Don't Run Into Them Because of What You Need, Get Into Them Because of What You Have To Offer....”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Woman: You've Got ALL IT TAKES!

“What's important to you may mean nothing to me and what's important to me may mean nothing to you. And that's okay.”
― Linda Anthony Hill

“He may have a title, but it does not determine his true worth.”
― Chantal Gadoury, Winterdream: A Retelling of The Nutcracker

“Both voice and self are established in early childhood. People who have not been given voice then have the lifelong need to be heard. The self goes under construction with unexpectedly large cost overruns in order to acquire a sense of value and importance.”
― Alis Cerrahyan, Dance Like Nobody's Watching

“...Alan, the first winter we knew him, stood at my desk in the Cathedral library and remarked, "I think you and Hugh live more existentially than most people."

I felt we'd made it: we, like Sartre and Camus and Kierkegaard, were existential; we were really with it. It doesn't matter that I'm still not quite sure what living existentially means, though I have a suspicion that it's not far from living ontologically, because it's one of those words that's outside the realm of provable fact and touches on mystery. Nothing important is completely explicable.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“What we value is important to us. It rises in the finite hierarchy of things we pay attention to. We are willing to put effort and energy in it. What we value however arises from our perspective; the way our brain synthesizes reality filtering facts it sees through its library of memories, its catalogue of knowledge and its store of experience. Our perspective then determines how we see the world and sense our place in it which means it establishes our position in what I will call our known universe. The perspective we have then feeds our sense of identity; what we feel we are and our sense of how others see us modified through our need for others to see us in a specific way. Our sense of identity, in turn, gives rise to our values. Our values determine our energy expenditure and guide our attention. Our attention determines what’s important to us.

You can see here how a misstep anywhere along this chain can derail us.”
― David Amerland

“Of what importance is it? To get married, bear a child, nurture the child until adulthood then destroy the whole process.”
― Abayomi Kayode Patrick

“Relationships take time, but we don’t want to take the time. In reality, too busy is a myth. People make time for the things that are really important to them.”
― Jonathan Hayashi, Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship

“The young body has not the importance except the sex; conversely, young and healthy thoughts, whatever the age is, inspire one to discover the secrets of the universe.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“She might do what the mortals did, and strain to convince herself that the death of her Boy and the loss of her husband had happened for some reason, that some restitution would be made for her, that she would be paid for her suffering with a truer and more tolerable understanding of the world, but she didn't think she had the muscles for it.”
― Chris Adrian, The Great Night

“The importance we give our disappointment is what turns it into a tragedy.”
― Nitya Prakash

“A forest full of trees is as important and valuable as a mine full of gold.”
― Paul Bamikole

“I would encourage you to always look at the little things, for little though they are, they hold great things. And I would likewise encourage you to pay enough attention to the big things so that you don’t lose the little things that lie within them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Both voice and self are established in early childhood. People who have not been given a voice then, have the lifelong need to be heard. The self goes under construction with unexpectedly large cost overruns in order to acquire a sense of value and importance.”
― Alis Cerrahyan, Dance Like Nobody's Watching

“A good way to ascertain what matters to you is to imagine the following: You wake up in the morning to the realisation that you have but a day to live. How would you want to spend that day? Who would you want to spend that time with?”
― Adiela Akoo