Quotes About Significance

No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.

It is this insistence of man upon meaning that makes him so difficult. Once he realizes that he is of no importance whatever in the vast scheme of the universe, that no possible significance can be attached to his activities, that it does not matter whether he lives or dies, he will become much more … tractable.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

She is the crescendo, the final astonishing work of God. Woman. In one least flourish creation comes to a finish not with Adam, but with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch… His piece de resistance. She fills a place in the world nothing and no one else can fill… (Ladies) Look out across the earth and say to yourselves, "The whole, vast world is incomplete without me. Creation reached its zenith in me.

You came into my life and not the way a casual visitor might (you know, 'without removing one's hat') but as one enters a kingdom, where all the rivers have waited for your reflection, all the roads for your footfall.

The fate of a single person can mean many things, the fate of several hundred is hard to encompass; but the history of thousands, millions, means essentially nothing at all.

Excuse me, what does 'no appreciable relation' mean'? In what proportion is reality appreciable or not?

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.

You have an irreplaceable role in your relationships. No one can be to the people in you life who you can be to them. No one can offer what you can.

Ahora es cuando debes aprender a distinguir las cosas importantes de las que no lo son. En

It's the thought that counts-quite literally. There's energy in doing and in intention, and it matters. It makes a difference.

Why are you here? Her words were a thread of silver in the moonlight. His answer was deep as the deepest shadows. You offered to be my inamorata, remember?

Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

Five minutes of a lifetime

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it

I don't know if it is important to tell you all this, but at the time, it felt like a "breakthrough".

I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand. And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean.

tenho de ouvir Mary Elizabeth falar sem parar de todas as coisas importantes que ela me mostra o tempo todo. É quase como se só houvesse três coisas envolvidas [no relacionamento]: Mary Elizabeth, eu e as coisas importantes.

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no brick and no temples.

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.

Even meaning and destiny themselves can be read in ordinary things, if you have the gift.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage.