Quotes About Importance

His lessons cautioned me that great events often hinged on small ones. (Bee talking about the Fool)

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine

Why, I wonder, does he write and then burn? Does he seek to banish his memories? Does he fear that writing it down makes it important? Some day, I hope to sit next to him and demand that he tell to me everything he can remember of his life. And I will write it down and never let the flames steal it.

He said that the longer life is, the more important it is to keep your friends, to not have quarrels that can be avoided." His smile faded a bit, and for a time he looked troubled. "He said that, as a soldier, he had learned that a man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.

They need other people to make them think they're alive. They only feel like they're important if someone else tells them they are.

Me parece que esto es lo que busca la memoria: no en sí la permanencia, sino una relevancia permanente.

Muriel, you're not a convenience. I'd walk across a mile of cut glass in my bare feet to hold your hand and talk to you for one hour. You're everything to me.--Walt

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot,

I need him to know that I want to understand him because he matters, because we matter. Because life made me believe that what is blossoming between us wasn't possible, but maybe, just maybe, it is.

I read, therefore, I matter.

In our old age, smaller pleasures assume greater importance, don't you think?

comprendo que no valoraba el amor más importante: el que surge de lo más profundo del corazón.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.

I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.

When life is reduced to the survival of someone you love, everything else reveals itself as trivial.

Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest children's books. I think it was Ruth Hill Viguers who compared this attitude with asking a pediatrician when he's going to stop fooling around and get down to the serious business of treating adults.

And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things I'll teach: that you must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams.

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.

I am teaching this one new habits," Kirsti explained importantly. "And I have named him Thor, for the God of Thunder.

Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in prestige.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. "And

You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me—and you—to lift that burden from themselves.

He looked as if it hadn't occurred to him that it might not matter.

The Receiver was the most important Elder. Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone.