Quotes About Significance

Prefiero estar contigo, incluso con ese tú que a ti te parece tan poca cosa, antes que con cualquier otra persona en el mundo.

Context can influence what actions we choose to make and how we choose to make them, it can influence how these actions are judged by ourselves and others, and thus how successful and significant they turn out to be.

These trace-chains are also significant as they may motivate similar actions in other places.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.

This is when the pill became widely known as The Pill, perhaps the only product in American history so powerful that it needed no name. Women went to their doctors and said they wanted it. They wanted The Pill. Some of them might still have been uncomfortable talking about birth control. Others might have been unsure of its brand name. But The Pill was The Pill because it was the only one that mattered, the one everyone was talking about, the one they needed.

There's a thing, Father, where men who have thought they were giants their entire lives actually see one for the first time. It sparks a reaction. It shows them their true worth. It shows them their place.

You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

The value of choice is not in the size of the action but in its effect

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

The crucial differentiation between humans and all other animals is that we make meanings, and the name we give to collective systems of meanings is culture.

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

Our canonical Gospels are the theological, historical, and aretological (virtue-forming)[91] biographical narratives that retell the story and proclaim the significance of Jesus Christ, who through the power of the Spirit is the Restorer of God's reign.[92]

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Y en seguida, estornudé. -¿Tienes frío? -¡No! Estornudo por darme importancia.

Cuando uno se olvida de ir a lo sustancial, se pierde en lo anecdótico.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Tightly relating the code to an underlying model gives the code meaning and makes the model relevant.

Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person's decision to matter.

The result may be important but it's not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. —C. S. LEWIS

Perhaps even more significant is that here at the same table were two champions of abolition meeting at a time before either had entered the lists on its behalf, as it were.