1038 – “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

-Charles Bukowski

992 – “Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

-anonymous [See Source Notes]

978 – “While skin color is more important than the brightness of the eyes, there will always be war.”

-Bob Marley [Attributed]

916 – “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

-anonymous

810 – “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”

–Audrey Hepburn

632 – “A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”

–Václav Havel

524 – “I just think it’s an important thing to engage in the world. And it’s just too easy not to in our society.”

–Natalie Portman

275 – “It is intolerable and indecent for a society to produce by overworking and underpaying human beings. Even if the product may cost more we in this country eventually accept the difference in cost because it is the man that counts – not the thing.”

–James Mitchell, 8th United States Secretary of Labor (1953-1961)

251 – “It’s important to make someone happy and it’s important to start with yourself.”

–anonymous

205 – “Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.”

–Paulo Coelho