#import

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#celebrate #comfort #death #importance #now

If something's important to you, you make time for it. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#make #something #time #you

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ↗

— Al McGuire

#only #only time #overrated #really #surgery

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost. ↗

— Donna Mills

#i #important #lost #thought #very

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#crowd #crowds #feel #focus #getting

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#gotta #important #important thing #life #money

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#capable #far #hostile #important #religion

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well. ↗

— Julia Child

#feel #few #follow #french #i

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#aids #charities #days #doing #fun

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. ↗

— Chuck Colson

#cannot #ends #i #illegal #important