Quotes About Significance

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

It is love alone that counts.

When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

Somewhat magically, when we do feel our work has meaning, it gives us a turbo boost of confidence to step up and have impact.

we may not exactly be God, but we're not exactly nothing, either.

The Seeker—in real life, as well as in Rowling's Potter series and its Quidditch game—is he or she who takes that sense of significance more seriously than anything else. The Seeker is therefore the person who is playing the game that everyone else is playing (and who is disciplined and expert at the game), but who is also playing an additional, higher-order game: the pursuit of what is of primary significance

Every game has rules... The first of these rules is that the game is important. If it wasn't important, you wouldn't be playing it.

Prosaically, such sacrifice—work—is delay of gratification, but that's a very mundane phrase to describe something of such profound significance. The discovery that gratification could be delayed was simultaneously the discovery of time and, with it, causality (at least the causal force of voluntary human action). Long ago, in the dim mists of time, we began to realize that reality was structured as if it could be bargained with.

Anything that interferes with such attainment (little old ladies with canes) will be experienced as threatening and/or punishing; anything that signifies increased likelihood of success (open stretches of sidewalk) will be experienced as promising or satisfying. It is for this reason that the Buddhists believe that everything is Maya, or illusion: the motivational significance of ongoing events is clearly determined by the nature of the goal toward which behavior is devoted

Any idiot can choose a frame of time within which nothing matters.

We do the things we do because we think those things important, compared to all the other things that could be important. We regard what we value as worthy of sacrifice and pursuit. That worthiness motivates us to act, despite the fact that action is difficult and dangerous.

Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos.

After all, if you're not the leading man in your own drama, you're a bit player in someone else's—and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part

Meaning gratifies all impulses, now and forever.

Cada persona es única y no solo de forma trivial, única de una forma importante, significativa y llena de significado. La pertenencia a un grupo no puede captar tal variabilidad. Y punto.

It is not vision as such, and not a plan devised to achieve a vision, that is at fault under such circumstances. A vision of the future, the desirable future, is necessary. Such a vision links action taken now with important, long-term, foundational values. It lends actions in the present significance and importance. It provides a frame limiting uncertainty and anxiety.