Quotes About Significance

Love is just a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning

Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created.

"The most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.

The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn that""And if everyone dies, no one learns anything

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.

We see how everything—the whole world—is belittled by the idea that all creation is moving or ought to move toward an end that some body, some human body, has thought up.

But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.

The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.

Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us. I am still not capable – or rather unwilling – to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere. (on the passing of Amos Vogel, his friend for more than 45 years)

People are important. They are more important than gold or places or – or anything.

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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history

It was at that battle that Goethe, present on the staff of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, made (we are told) a famous remark: "From today and from this place begins a new epoch in the history of the world.

If Cleopatra's nose, said Pascal, had been an inch longer or shorter, all history would have been changed.

There is nevertheless a value in painting these pictures of our desire; man's significances is that he can image a better world, and will some part of it at least into reality; man is an animal that makes Utopias. (p.47/543)