Quotes About Significance

Das, dachte er, ist es. Leben müssen, obgleich alles vorbei ist. Disponieren, organisieren: jeden Tag, jede Stunde und Minute. Als hätte es noch Sinn

Are good and evil of importance to the universe or only to man?

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Indeed, feelings don't just matter–they are what mattering means.

What is it you say now, what peace is there to be made in the last minutes of the last day that will mark the before and after of your life until then, the day that will change everything for both of you, the living and the dead?

The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

U svakom mom retku, u svakoj mojoj re?i, u svakoj ta?ki nalaziš se i ti, kao polen.

Because isn't to be pursued, to be thought of as special, to be needed by someone somewhere, whether we know them yet or not, all any of us actually want?

Maybe it's still worth it to me, even if it doesn't last forever," he said. "Maybe you're still worth it to me.

In that fraction of an instant between when that person stops singing and when that person decides to rise from the bed and disappear-a tiny rehearsal, though you do not yet know it, of what will eventually happen for good-time holds still, and you can feel, through your closed eyes, how that person, watching your still, small face in the darkness, has suddenly realized that you are the reason his life matters.

a difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

New things have to be a pretty good size to make a difference."

The brain is an irrelevant topic of the century.

Friend is cullinan diamond, they can not be a second option as boyfriend.

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!

When presented with a choice of beginnings, choose the one with meaning.

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.

why a difference in kind should equate to a difference in significance.

Tradition, meaning, and relevance

there is not one single challenge to Christianity that eclipses all others in importance.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death. I mean, if he can live on after he has died, then maybe he was a great man. To me the only success, the only greatness, is immortality.