Quotes About Significance

You matter, yes you heard me right. Anyone who thinks/speaks otherwise is just taking you for granted period.

Oamenii la care ne gîndim dintr-o dat?, f?r? motiv aparent, sînt cei care ne-au flatat ori ne-au umilit într-un moment sau altul al existenÅ£ei noastre. Sînt singurii de care ne amintim dup? ani, chiar ÅŸi atunci cînd au disp?rut de tot din orizontul nostru.

Je sais que ma naissance est un hasard, un accident risible, et cependant, dès que Je m'oublie, Je me comporte comme si elle était un évènement capital, indispensable à la marche et à l'équilibre du monde

Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.

A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after the autopsy, is less than a corpse.

This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else.

Hardly any of the names of ancient artists are recorded, even though they did more for the happiness of their people than the pharoahs, generals, and world rulers whose pride filled the world with sorrow.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Dialogues build strong links when they are about things that matter.

The use of the Queen, in a dignified capacity, is incalculable. Without her in England, the present English Government would fail and pass away. Most people when they read that the Queen walked on the slopes at Windsor—that the Prince of Wales went to the Derby—have imagined that too much thought and prominence were given to little things. But they have been in error; and it is nice to trace how the actions of a retired widow and an unemployed youth become of such importance.

Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

Beauty must be more than an accident.

When a young woman suddenly takes up religious practices which she has before abandoned, this new order of life always conceals a motive highly significant, in view of her husband's happiness. In the case of at least seventy-nine women out of a hundred this return to God proves that they have been inconsistent, or that they intend to become so.

Nel vivere ci sono davvero tanti significati, e una quantità incredibile di scene, più numerose delle stelle, tante da non poterle ricordare a una a una, inonda il mio spirito, però mai più cercherò di attribuire alla vita dei significati, mai più cadrò in errore così brutto e meschino

Per quanto uno possa invecchiare, l'amore è qualcosa che nel momento in cui te ne rendi conto, ormai lo stai già vivendo. Ce ne sono di due tipi; quelli di cui si riesce a vedere la fine e quelli di cui non è possibile. Siamo soltanto noi stessi che possiamo dire di quale dei due si tratti. Il fatto che non si riesca a vedere la fine, è il segno che si tratta di qualcosa di enorme.

Non ci rendevamo neanche conto che il semplice pensare l'uno all'altra, il semplice accorgersi del rumore di una finestra che si apre, era l'inizio di un amore.

For the first time, I saw the difference we made by being there for people over the years, in the background of their lives.

Ese espacio que uno ocupa, siquiera por un breve periodo, y aunque antes o después todos los personajes deban desaparecer en los confines del tiempo, resplandece como algo sumamente valioso.

I'd always believed I didn't take up a lot of space in this world—that it hardly mattered whether I was here or not. When a person left, the people around them got used to their absence. That was true enough. But when I pictured the world without me, and the people I loved living on in it, I couldn't help but feel like crying.

Because I wasn't in love with Yuichi, I understood that very well. The quality & importance of a fountain pen meant to him something completely different from what it meant to her. Perhaps there are people who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being - and that's very sad. If you're not in love with him, you can understand him.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

I'm not saying don't do it. I'm just saying don't pretend it's not a big deal when it obviously is.

But maybe what's important is not that I matter to them, but that they matter to me. And mostly that 'I' matter to me.