Quotes About Significance

Nada tiene significado excepto el que nosotros le damos.

Money's not really important." Let me ask you this question: If you said that your husband or your wife, or your boyfriend or your girlfriend, or your partner or your friend, weren't all that important, would any of them be around for long? I don't think so, and neither would money!

WEALTH PRINCIPLE: Money is extremely important in the areas in which it works, and extremely unimportant in the areas in which it doesn't.

nada tiene significado excepto el que nosotros le damos».

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume?

All that I could hope to make you understand Is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened Cannot understand the unimportance of events.

We had the experience but missed the meaning.

Time is such a cheat. The more importance you give it, the less you have of it.

He was not great; he was, in fact, very small. At the same moment, though, he was important, just as any point of light in a dark sky might be the star that led a mariner to safety, or the star watched by a lonely child during a sleepless night. . . .

And, discovering this truth, she felt it burning inside her. It was so right. She had turned away from a gift, thinking it did not matter, but in fact a gift—and specifically the gift of love—was the only thing that did matter.

What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?

It came to him to wonder, though only for a second, why the mercurial Mercurio kept about him such a symbol of order and changeless.

With one she loved she would be fire and flower and flood. But with any other, worthless, cold, and useless.

What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?

I determined my significance by their perspective of me.

I see now that in my search for love and acceptance, I slowly began to enslave myself to various identities, which I mistook for my real self in many arenas—sports, church, relationships, career, wealth. These identities became like gods of a lesser kind, all of which I hoped would save me from insignificance in this life.