Quotes About Significance

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

The smallest detail may be the one that matters the most

It almost felt like too much, just by the sad weight of its being so little.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

Minila bodo leta, veliko pomembnih let. Mene tedaj že ne bo ve?. ?asi o?etov in dedov se ne bodo vrnili, kar pravzaprav niti ni pomembno in si niti tega ne želim. Zagotovo pa bodo ponovno vzniknile tako dolgo zatajevane plemenitost, ustvarjalnost in veli?ina. To bo obdobje velikih vrednot. Vaše življenje bo postalo bogato in plodno kot še nikoli doslej... Tedaj se spomnite name.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

Let us examine the case of rings. Rings have long been considered peculiarly suitable for this sort of magic by virtue of their small size.

Mi sono reso conto che la ricerca della Conoscenza ci ha incoraggiato a pensare alla Casa come se fosse una sorta di enigma da sciogliere, un testo da interpretare, e che se mai scoprissimo la Conoscenza, allora sarebbe come se alla Casa venisse strappato via il valore lasciando soltanto una semplice scenografia. (...) La Casa ha valore in sé perché è la Casa. È sufficiente già di per sé. Non è un mezzo per arrivare a un fine.

According to the second system I have given the years names like 'The Year I named the Constellations' and 'The Year I counted and named the Dead'. I like this much more. It gives each year a character of its own. This is the system I shall use going forward.

Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.

It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.

Unlike the supply of dogs, the supply of good names isn't limitless.

Eva: there's so much out there for you. You just don't know it yet. gideon: I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it. Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now. WITH YOU

I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.

But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

I want to be important, by being different. & these girls are all the same

I counted the letters. There were exactly a hundred of them. I thought this must be important.

His name was Cal, which I thought must be short for something, but I couldn't think what it would be short for, unless it was California.

I am terrified even to have known him, he makes all others mere puny fragments.

I want to be important.By being different.And all these girls are the same.

And get this, I'm with you. Don't stop talking to me, please. It's as important as if we were the only people alive . . . .

Listen up, my friends: Money is extremely important in the areas in which it works, and extremely unimportant in the areas in which it doesn't. And although love may make the world go round, it sure doesn't pay for the building of any hospitals, churches, or homes. It also doesn't feed anybody.