Quotes About Significance

Love is holy because it is like grace – the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

A life without flowers is no life at all, for beauty is more necessary than we can imagine.

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Ese objeto, anodino en la realidad real, transfigurado prodigiosamente por el lenguaje, es la demostración de algo que descubrió Flaubert a los veinticuatro años y que se apresuró a participar a su amigo Le Poittevin: «Pour qu'une chose soit intéressante, il suffit de la regarder longtemps».[53]

MVLL: Pero ¿no hay una nostalgia en usted de cosas no hechas por haber dedicado tanto tiempo a la vida puramente intelectual? JLB: Creo que no. Creo que a la larga uno vive esencialmente todas las cosas y lo importante no son las experiencias, sino lo que uno hace con ellas.

Un libro se convierte en parte de la vida de una persona por una suma de razones que tienen que ver simultáneamente con el libro y con la persona.

Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.

Without time, nothing had meaning. Never before had I understood how crucial the passage of time was to caring about something. It gave it an expiry date, a wick, a rush, a burn. Without it, everything sat in place, dumbly waiting. In

I never realized how much they loved me. And I understood how important they were to me.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

Mother used to say that it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value.

A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, But because it never forgot what it could do. —NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I was recently in San Francisco

La diferencia entre lo trivial y lo importante depende de la persona que hace el trabajo.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. If the mockingbird were chirping to give us the long-sought formula for a unified field theory, the point would be only slightly less irrelevant. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Our lives and our deaths surely count equally, or we must abandon one-man-one-vote, dismantle democracy, and assign seven billion people an importance-of-life ranking from one to seven billion.

The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but that we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.