When You Realize You Don't Matter Quotes

#1. One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.

Karen Marie Moning

#2. High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.

Leighton Meester

#3. Now everything is backed up on the cloud and you can find your phone if you lose it in a taxi. Don't you realize it's only a matter of time before our phones can FIND US?

Amy Poehler

#4. With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for ... to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don't want to awake from.

Sawm Rad

#5. One positive thought is the victory you need today!

Bryant McGill

#6. When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

Sarah Louise Delany

#7. The contents of the glass don't matter; what's more important is to realize there's a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

Shawn Achor

#8. What is it about men and yelling at a game on television? Don't they realize they can't change the outcome, no matter how loudly they yell?

Melissa Collins

#9. I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.

Ciara

#10. You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square of toilet paper.'
I didn't realize it was toilet paper.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

S.I. Hayakawa

#12. Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Gautama Buddha

#13. I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter. Survival is your primary focus.

Alycia Debnam Carey

#14. He may be the one dressed like a fool, but it seemed the title was reserved for her.

Marissa Meyer

#15. There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

Nikki Giovanni

#16. We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.

Marlin Stutzman

#17. The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#18. Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.

Bankei Yotaku

#19. Agonizing really, how enduring love can be. Even after you have packed it up and put it away, it is still there - always there, yellowing around the edges and begging you to turn its pages again.

Tina L. Hook

#20. Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#21. Then don't give up. One day you'll look around and realize that all the things you thought mattered so much, really didn't matter much at all.- Gran

J. Sterling

#22. Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Bob Geldof

#23. If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

Richard Koch

#24. It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.

Martin Seligman

#25. Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

Richard Branson

#26. She wouldn't have done it if he hadn't looked at her the way he did. But she had wanted to be in his arms. In fact, she had wanted it ... and enjoyed it ... far too much.

Melanie Dickerson

#27. Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.

Robin S. Sharma

#28. Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you'll be fine.

Manolo Blahnik

#29. Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry.

Honore De Balzac

#30. I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind

Edgar Allan Poe

#31. I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

Al Leiter

#32. It's always a sad revelation when a good friend acquires a girlfriend or a husband and disappears. You realize that, for them, your friendship was always only a matter of convenience, a fallback, and they simply don't need you anymore. There

Tim Kreider

#33. My cheeks flushed, and I felt a wave of warmth throughout my body, but not because of the subject matter. Because she had used the word us.
It was one of those times when you don't realize how lonely you are until, suddenly, there's someone by your side.

I. W. Gregorio

#34. The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

Jan Brewer