Quotes About Significance

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

People are much more important than superficial environments.

Life is heavier than the weight of all things.

Beauty will become paltry and insignificant when one looks for it only in what is pleasing; there it might be found occasionally but it resides and lies awake in each thing where it encloses itself, and it emerges only for the individual who believes that it is present everywhere and who will not move on until he has stubbornly coaxed it forth.

I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things ? Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

An actually existent fly is more important than a possibly existent angel.

Cada hombre auténtico es una causa, un país, y una era.

Life on earth matters not because it's the only life we have, but precisely because it isn't—it's the beginning of a life that will continue without end.

Most people live unprepared for death. But those who are wise will go to a reliable source to investigate what's on the other side. And if they discover that the choices they make during their brief stay in this world will matter in the world to come, they'll want to adjust those choices accordingly.

Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.

Thankfully, our disappointments matter to God, and He has a way of taking even some of the bitterest moments we go through and making them into something of great significance in our life. It's hard to understand it at the time. Not one of us wants that thread when it is being woven in. Not one of us says, 'I can hardly wait to see where this is going to fit.' We all say at that moment, 'This is not the pattern I want.

Farmecul vieÈ›ii nu const? niciodat? într-un lucru, ci culmineaz?, fundamental, într-o persoan?.

Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.

The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.