Quotes About Significance

Now, what is the good of driblets? To go through life having done one thing — to have raised one person from the abyss; not these puny gifts of shillings and blankets — making the grey more grey. No doubt people will think me extraordinary.

She thought of her distant youth. The world was not so humorous then, but it had been more important.

Serious not in the sense of glum; but they must be convinced that our life is a state of some importance, and our earth not a place to beat time on.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

I wanted to be like her because she mattered.

You are indispensable until your work on earth is done.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

Serce jest wi?cej warte, ni?li ca?e z?oto ?wiata.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love and the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. - Gaston Berger

The New Testament alone refers to this awesome event 321 times—in one out of every thirty verses—

My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I entertained the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. Now I am here to do honor To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang. No one cares now where I dined, Or lived, or whom I entertained, Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.

Though last not least.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

You are loved. If so, what else matters?

The beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in it's way, when true to it's own character, is equally beautiful. If Delicate Arch has any significance it lies, I will venture, in the power of the odd and unexpected to startle the senses and surprise the mind out of their ruts of habit, to compel us into a reawakened awareness of the wonderful-that which is full of wonder.

A part of our nature rebels against this truth and against that other part which would accept it. A second truth of equal weight contradicts the first, proclaiming through art, religion, philosophy, science and even war that human life, in some way not easily definable, is significant and unique and supreme beyond all the limits of reason and nature. And this second truth we can deny only at the cost of denying our humanity.

One no longer searches for any ulterior significance in all this; as in the finest music, the meaning is in the music itself, not in anything beyond it. All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

The law is not concerned with trifles.

"Shine, Shine, save poor me!I'll give you all the pussy a Shine can see."Shine says, "Now pussy's good, but pussy don't last—Shine's going to save his own black ass."And Shine swam on.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?