Quotes About Significance

We still say 'the apple of the eye' when we wish to describe something superlatively precious.

Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year—what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.

Everything is language.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

The things we remember are not necessarily the most permanent or even the most meaningful, but they are often the brightest, and maybe that is why in the end they matter most.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

Don't worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

being here, alive, makes you worthy.

every physical encounter has a metaphysical meaning.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. — Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Everyman's Library; Reprint edition, November 2, 2010) Originally published January 1, 1998.

For words were so close to the things they described that, on mornings when the mist swept down from the mountains into the ghost villages below, poetry mixed with life and words with the objects they signified.

In its simplest terms, clicking can be defined as an immediate, deep, and meaningful connection with another person or with the world around us. Typically

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles, life. —Young. The smallest hair throws its shadow. —Goethe. He that despiseth small things shall fall little by little. —Ecclesiastes. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. —Tennyson. A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever.

who would expect less? she said. You're a Wiggin. Whatever that means. He said. It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

Test can't messure what really matters.

Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone?

Everything we do means something.

He was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.

Tudo o que fazemos tem um significado, Ender concluiu. Eles rirem. Eu não rir.

You have always been useless. But that doesn't mean you aren't necessary. What do you mean? Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as useful ones.

gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.