Quotes About Significance

I have lived with the knowledge of the meaning of my name for a long time.

New significance had come to the tumbled ruins; I walked a landscape of the past, along an avenue of spiritual fires.

She wished for what would happen to be something incredible and life-changing. She wished for it to be important.

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.

It was the kind of moment on which the wheels of history turn.

The worst thing,' she whispered to the cat as she stroked it, 'is not to be useful.

But to try to achieve something massively significant in a field where you're by and large useless after your fortieth birthday—and my father was seventy-seven—is the height of both delusion and optimism.

There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.

It was an exciting community, where we lived in Washington. The basic feeling—and I don't think this is just nostalgia—was one of excitement, of achievement, of happiness. Life was important, life was significant.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

This I remember. Some people put this out of their minds and forget it. I don't. I don't want to forget it. I don't want it to take the best of me, but I want to be there because this is what happened. This is the truth, you know. History.

Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

pink Kimilsungias (hybrid flowers bred to honor the Great Leader; the ones named after his son are called Kimjongilias)

No image can be more beautiful than its meaning.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments of life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it's this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It's a primal relationship.

I don't believe in a solo role which doesn't have any meaning.

Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.