Quotes About Significance

A thing which is of no moment itself may be made of importance in the way of competition.

To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative insignificance in the scale of creation, which, in the midst of their admitted mastery over the earth and all it contains, it would be well for them to consider, if they would obtain just views of what they are and what they were intended to be.

In our zeal to become the landlords of our own being, we cling to each achievement as a kind of verification of our self-proclaimed reality. We become the center and God somehow recedes to an invisible fringe. Others become real to the extent they become significant others to the designs of our own ego. And in this process the ALL of God dies in us and the sterile nothingness of our desires becomes our God.

Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity….

The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything - apart from Imogen Poots.

Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.

You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there.

Each moment of love is eternal.Each moment of life is essential.

Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.

Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.

Somewhere along the length of time, while we are busy numbering our days, we forget to make them count.

You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself.

WAKE UP NOW...You will become a history one day...Even if you are most important, most powerful, most wanted or most influential individual on the planet. THAT'S IT!

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.

A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.

Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained