Mattering Quotes

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I don't want to not be important.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

You've given me value, Dun­can. In my heart I know I mat­ter to you.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

People just want to know that they matter.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.