What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label. Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now. If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all?
What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. It's not like we have anything pressing to do. It's actually quite pleasant up here—you should just sit back and enjoy it. You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones.
But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live. Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them? What does it matter what happens to our clothes?
We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder. I much prefer following a lead character that is doing morally questionable things. How much do you get on board? Do like that? Do you hate it? Does it matter? In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?
Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself. It is only in this way that we can crush our ego. If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?
To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification.
God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us. Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter. We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter. What does it matter where my body happens to be? What's to be believed? There is nothing back then that there isn't here now.
There is nothing here now - nothing that matters - that wasn't back then. What matters. Are you a good person? Do you have any love in your heart? What would you do in a given circumstance? It all comes down to something like that. Just the feeling itself of being alive, the absolute amazing fact that we are here right now, breathing, thinking, doing.
Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,—that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. A John Green does but he is not me.
Although today he is mostly forgotten which is a nice reminder that no matter what you do the tides of time will wash away your sandcastles. So there's no sense in reaching for some foolhardy notion of immortality when there is real work to be done with real people, right now. You can spend it anyway you want, but only once. Make sure you invest it and don't waste it.
Invest it in something that matters to you and matters for eternity. She has gone, and with her I shall go. It is the only thing that really matters. Let this then be the only thing you remember; Sweetheart, I love you. Motivational quotes offer short and sweet passages that we can build bigger ideas off of to pull our thoughts together. Inspirational quotes are greatly beneficial to everyone, especially writers, regardless of where they are in the writing process.
Quotes can help generate ideas within brainstorming, which can influence the ideas within the piece. They can send you in new directions by presenting the ideas of others.
Finally, quotes can be a succinct way to fuel a writer as they pull a piece together, which will not distract them from writing for too long.
0コメント