Quotes About Significance

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

How do we measure a life's worth? In laughter? In orgasms? In money? In how often we have been photographed? In children borne or raised? In the number of continents on which we have made love? In number of books published? In latest versions of iPads and iPhones? In jazz albums filling a giant trunk in the basement? In years? We are all specks of dust against the specter of Time. Is ninety years so different from forty in the scheme of things? We are all the walking dead of history.

We are all specks of dust against the specter of Time. Is ninety years so different from forty in the scheme of things? We are all the walking dead of history.

It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it is the tiny one-acts we produce in between.

Para comprender a un gran hombre, es preciso referirse, necesariamente, al día de su muerte.

I'm not happy to face it," he added, "but in the context of my life then, these workers' only significance was what they could produce towards our war effort; I didn't see or think of them as human beings, as individuals.

Aquilo que permanece imóvel, Vadia. No meio de todas as mudanças, nós não estamos treinados para distinguir as coisas que permanecem iguais. E isso é um grande problema, porque, quando se pensa no assunto, as coisas que não mudam são quase sempre as mais importantes.»

O poder é feito de minúcias.

Bellacoglienza era rimasta sola, e si stringeva nel suo lettino. Era felice di essere sola. Dante Alighieri, quante parole gli aveva sentito mormorare, quante sciocchezze sussurrano gli uomini in quel momento. Era un poeta importante, le aveva detto qualcuno. Chissà.

When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Interpreting literature was like performing a piece of music. It was a matter of lines and phrases, of hearing the resonance and learning where the stress falls. The note A has little significance by itself, just like the words love and yes. Yet placed just right, surrounded by other notes, other words, even a single tone can absorb all the forcefulness of our need, returning it to us as meaning.

Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.

the central concept of self-esteem – the belief that each person counts and can make a difference

without a deep understanding that our significance comes from being loved and accepted by God exactly as we are, upside-down priorities will dominate our lives.

Of all the significant things I noted in the world, one significantly stood out, the insignificance of man.

The problem with society is that the vast majority of its members consider the superficial things very crucial and the very crucial things superficial.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Woman is God's supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.