Quotes About Significance

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Quien no vive para algo, ha de vivir para alguien.

What does that mean?' Anna whispered. 'What does that all mean? Abel ran his fingers through her hair again, and his hand wandered down and stayed on her throat. 'It means everything,' he whispered back. 'And nothing.

Anna," he said for the fourth time, as if there was nothing more to say, now that she'd finally answered. Nothing but her name. As if he'd just called to make sure she existed.

ut res magis valeat quam pereat).

El alma de las personas no está en las fotografías sino en las cosas menudas que tocaron, las que tuvieron el calor de las palmas de sus manos. La noche de los tiempos

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Cosa fanno le persone importanti in un cimitero? Dormono, anche loro dormono uguale uguale alle persone che non contarono un cazzo. E tutti nella stessa posizione: orizzontali. L'eternità è orizzontale.

Better to say nothing or just a few thoughts that mean truly something valuable than a whole lot of things which seem nothing but a garbage of words to someone truly valuable.

Better to write/say/share a single thought that has got good sense to make a nice difference even if in the life of just one suppressed/oppressed person than to pen/utter/upload multiple quotes that are all nonsense or crap sentence even if those get cheer or clap from many stupid/self-obsessed people

The consideration of the quantity often takes the precedence over that of the quality in many significant activity of the society as the ordinary minds are in the great majority and the extraordinary brains are in the giant minority.

The historical facts show that most people can't feel anything worthwhile, so how could a person make them think to accept anyone worth respecting.

The value of a person does not increase by the price of apparels and accessories s/he wears.

The meaning is the ending.

Scorn ye not the little things, For life is made from them.

Or perhaps it has another form that only you can see and imagine. What story does the simple stone tell? Where did it come from? Isn't it like stones you yourself have picked up on your travels? Why do we keep such things? Reminders of all that has gone before, perhaps they keep us.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

We need a witness to our lives. There are a billion people on the planet…. I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything—the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things—all of it, all the time, every day. You're saying, 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness.

Jeg er jeg. En viktig person. Den viktigste i hele verden. Men jeg kan ikke være/kan ikke bli jeg uten andre. I så fall er jeg/blir jeg ingenting – usynlig – og det vil jeg ikke være. I forhold til deg – den viktigste personen i hele verden. Kyss meg!

Have you found out the meaning of your life? Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us. You too are someone more important to me than my own life.

Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.