Quotes About Significance

When you show up with nothing and discover that you're loved because of who you are—that's when you realize what it means to be a son of God... It's pretty breathtaking...

We shouldn't think for a moment that just because their lives are short they shouldn't be here.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

Monuments are not about history; they are values made visible.

how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them. It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage—the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage - the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read.

I realized that in depression, nothing matters," she said. "And in sadness, everything matters.

The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

She has no idea. The effect she can have.

There is a point to everything or nothing at all, depending on your worldview.

Not to you maybe," she said. "But it matters the world having someone show up like I mattered.

It still seems too small. I should try to think bigger, beyond our current situation where I am of the utmost importance, to the future where I may be worth nothing.

She has no idea. The effect she can have." He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me.

think . . . you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He slides his cuffs up the support and pushes himself to a sitting position. "None

We never remember what is important, only what matters to us

It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life.

I have to live if I want to be remembered.

I want you to understand that simply saying your name is an act of power.

Having your voice heard makes you feel more involved and somewhat important.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

My oldest son's name is Oliver and my second son's name is Walter.

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.