What Matters Now Quotes

#1. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

Leo Babauta

#2. Here's what I've learned about "soon"; it's short for "someday." We make space in our lives for what matters, now. Not in promises and soons, but on mantels with sterling frames, in shelves we clear to make room for our now. Everything else i talk.

Stephanie Klein

#3. I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.

Kristin Hannah

#4. What matters it what went before or after,
Now with myself I will begin and end.

William Shakespeare

#5. The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

Asger Jorn

#6. Didn't you know? That's what I love about high school girls. I get older and they just stay-"
"The same age." She completes before pressing her lips to mine, until nothing, not even my last breath, matters anymore.
All that matters is her.

Melyssa Winchester

#7. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

Patrick Macnee

#8. The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

Lee Hall

#9. What now matters most is that we avoid ending human history. If there are no rational beings elsewhere, it may depend on us and our successors whether it will all be worth it, because the existence of the Universe will have been on the whole good.

Derek Parfit

#10. I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, Jason," he said. "It's what I'll forget that matters.

Amber Dermont

#11. When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

Lisa J. Shultz

#12. You are mine. You are always going to be mine. It doesn't matter what came before, the only thing that matters is what is now and going forward. There will never be anyone else for you. Only me. Me.

Thea Harrison

#13. There comes a moment when you realize what matters the most in your life. Let that moment be now and that matter be your love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your death. Your soul lived before and will live on and on and on ... so what you do now matters later. Choose wisely.

Toni Sorenson

#15. Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. She's got a big-time job in California but she don't call or visit anymore. She sends me money and stuff every now and then, but I ain't seen her in I don't know how long.

Toni Morrison

#16. I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

Art Linkletter

#17. What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

John Updike

#18. If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead ... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

Katharine Hepburn

#19. Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

Shahid Kapoor

#20. What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us.

Gregory David Roberts

#21. Casy said solemnly, This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now his dead, an' that don't matter ...

John Steinbeck

#22. Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Yann Martel

#23. I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.
Only the is.

Augusten Burroughs

#24. It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.

Daniel H. Pink

#25. That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.

Larry Winget

#26. I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

Virat Kohli

#27. That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.

H.L. Davis

#28. What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

Dick Costolo

#29. I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.

El-P

#30. The only way anyone ever knows what matters to them is by losing it. If losing something breaks you in a way that can never be repaired, then that was what mattered. Now you know. Congrats. Try to live with it.

Mira Grant

#31. We have to believe that forgiveness is still possible even if those we committed crimes against will not forgive us. It means what matters most is how we live now. It's what redemption is all about.

Heather Anastasiu

#32. What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else.

Nicholas Kaufmann

#33. You can't control everything, and matters of the heart are one of those things. The heart wants what the heart wants and you gotta let it have it. Everyone will get hurt at some point, but don't think about that. Think about now.

Emma Hart

#34. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.

Eileen Caddy

#35. When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

Gail Collins

#36. The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.

Patrice O'Neal

#37. That doesn't mean that I would destroy those works, or that I'm not proud of having come out the other side. Our past art makes our present art as much as our past life makes us who we are now. In the end, if the art stands up, that's what matters.

Kat Howard

#38. The past is done, and we can't change it. All we can do is try to be better. What really matters is who you are now.

Cindi Madsen

#39. It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

Cheri Huber

#40. It doesn't matter what I think. It matters what you think, Donny boy. Tonight was the best thing that could have happened to you. You will now either get out of the business and lead a normal life,

Ritch Shydner

#41. Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

#42. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

Pema Chodron

#43. Bad enough," he said grimly. "But everyone's okay now; that's what matters.

Richelle Mead

#44. It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.

Shelly Crane

#45. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#46. I think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.

Peter Berg

#47. Past and future is determined by what is now ... right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.

T.F. Hodge

#48. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

Rhonda Byrne

#49. What do you care?" Arik Siq asked. "Who your people were matters hardly at all. Who they are now is what matters. Who you are." "Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present," Pan replied. "You are your history.

Terry Brooks

#50. I have gone astray many times, but Now, what matters is the mercy of God's grace that guides me in the right path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before. He may not be certain what any of it means, but for now he does not think that it much matters.

Erin Morgenstern

#52. Know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.

Kristin Hannah

#53. The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Arthur M. Jolly

#54. What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Beth Revis

#55. Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Mitt Romney

#56. It may be all dark now, but it will soon be light; it may be all trial now, but it will soon be all happiness. What matters it though "weeping may endure for a night," when "joy cometh in the morning?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#57. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.

Nikki Rowe

#58. What matters it, O breeze, If now has come the spring When I have lost them both The garden and my nest?

William Dalrymple

#59. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.

Julien Smith

#60. Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.

Craig Newmark

#61. Infinite possibilities. And none of them matter.
What matters is here and now.

Shannon Messenger

#62. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

Richard Paul Evans

#63. Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you
and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.

Liz Kessler

#64. Are you serious right now?" Hailey asks. "What's wrong with saying his life matters too?" "His life always matters more!" My voice is gruff, and my throat is tight. "That's the problem!" "Starr!

Angie Thomas

#65. Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

Neil Gaiman

#66. Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!

Tony Robbins

#67. What is your name, Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist.

Jose Saramago

#68. Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters ... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.

Joss Whedon

#69. We could have died just now. We didn't. Maybe we'll die tomorrow. I don't know. What matters is that we're alive now.

Richelle Mead

#70. It does not matter where you are standing right now, what matters is where you are headed to.

Sanchita Pandey

#71. I don't need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp. It helps us remember that what we do here, now, matters. What good is immortality, if you're just a dirty little despot in some shitty corner of the world?

C.M. Hayden

#72. Anyway, what I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters. It reawakens the reader to the fact and the value of her own existence.

Anonymous

#73. What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her - that I lived long enough to have her love me back.

Emm Cole

#74. What matters is what you are holding in your consciousness as to the possibility for your life now.

Karen S. Wylie MA

#75. It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.

Suzanne Young

#76. Did you ever stop and ask God if your current position is the one He has chosen for you, if where you are now is where He wants you to be? It makes no difference what the salary or working conditions are like; what really matters is, has God called you to that job and place?

Terry Nance

#77. The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.

Victor Shamas

#78. The only thing that matters is what we do with now. What we do with what's left of us after the pain rips us apart. It's what's left of us that matters. What's left of us.

Richard Farrell

#79. It doesn't matter how many possibilities they've missed - thousands, millions, billions - what matters is this possibility, right here and right now. A new day begins with purpose, and with promise.

Marla Miniano

#80. Loyalty is what matters, and that exists now, not in the past. Loyalty must be prove every day, in each piece of fresh-kill brought back to the Clan, every claw mark on our enemies, every patrol, every training session.

Erin Hunter

#81. What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Sai Baba

#82. You had me," she whispered, cheeks flushing at the reminder. "I did," he agreed. "But the past isn't what matters. I live in the present, Genna. I live in the now. I had you, yeah, but what I want is to have you.

J.M. Darhower