Quotes About Significance

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.

When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

What would the world be without him, and those like him?

The anonymous puts the name in place, leaves it empty, as if the name were there only to let itself be passed through because the name does not name, but is the non-unity and non-presence of the nameless.

We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.

Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was

why do humans like him so much? Why does he mean so much to me—to Kate?" "Simply because he is different. You get from him what you could get from no other man in the world, perhaps

The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. What did Jesus know that enabled Him to do what He did? Here's part of the answer: He knew the value of people. He knew that each human being is a treasure. And because He did, people were not a source of stress, but a source of joy.

Identity: smack-dab in the middle...Neither omnipotent nor impotent. Neither God's MVP nor God's mistake.

A person is worth something simply because he is a person.

Each star, numbered. Each star, named! Like every grain of sand. Every hair on his head. Every trouble that filled his day. Created. Numbered. Known.

You were deliberately planned, specially gifted, and lovingly placed on this earth by God. In a world that decides your worth by the clothes you wear or the sports you play, let me tell you something—you are valuable because God created you.

If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest of incidents takes on significance.