Quotes About Significance

Bealeton. Another sleepy hamlet was about to have its name written down in history in letters of blood.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Language not urged and crammed with love is nothing, while that which is is everything.

Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a pre-ordained trajectory of history.

We are called to plant these seeds in our world: to dare to tell every living soul that they already matter, that their seemingly mundane lives are a slowly unfolding mystery, that their small choices and acts of generosity are vitally important.

We can discover that of the rough material we've been given, every single thread of what we'll eventually contribute back to the tapestry of all humanity is every bit as important, needed, wanted, and cherished as every and any other scrap and thread.

just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I guess. I guess, that's what love means.

The Ashawala'i call that feeling 'being struck by lightning.

If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

You have a fixation with time - clocks, years. What do they matter when there's love?

How such incredibly powerful creatures could be so vulnerable was a crime against the universe. The tragic futility of it all was what really got me. The rhino's brilliant million-year evolutionary effort to build up three tons of muscle, bone and horn to defend itself meant nothing in a modern technological world that didn't care a fig about them. The fact that our grandchildren may never see a rhino in the wild again was a pivotal reason to continue to try and save them.

What first occurs to us on remembering the dream/reading the text may be the most important thing.

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

Little things are big.

Did you know that he was the one responsible for the umpire giving hand signals for a ball or a strike? Raising his right hand for a strike, you know, and stuff like that. He'd be up at bat and he couldn't hear and he couldn't talk, so he'd look around at the umpire to see what the pitch was, a ball or a strike. That's where the hand signs for the umpires calling balls and strikes began. That's a fact. Very few people know that.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.

You don't need to take notes. If it's important, you'll remember it.

if there's not some sort of friction in a move forward, your step is not as consequential as you'd like to believe it is

He told me it didn't really matter if it was true, it was what the story MEANT that was so important.

We all want to 'count for something'–to make a difference. And, accountability helps us get where want to go in terms of achieving our goals and fulfilling our responsibilities.