Quotes About Significance

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

The vividness and force with which we trace the motion of history depends on the degree to which we look beyond persons and fix our gaze on things.

History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.

Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential.

I'm done waiting. Done doing things the easy way and letting things happen as they will. Her heart caught. What does that mean? It means this is too important to let slip away again. You're too important. He leaned back against the truck with a low grunt of effort, eyes dark, jaw clenched. I love you too, Tara.

All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.

Every soul is special. They're all beautiful. They're all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they're acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don't have bad souls. They've just given up on keeping in touch with them.

An inferior sense of smell, Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

Significance is cumulative—but not always obvious.

Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real.

Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.

now, young man. That's no small thing

Meaning creates emotion.

I seek the substantial in life.

She hoped that although he could not hear her she could somehow imprint her ordinary love upon his memory through all eternity, hoped he would rise thinking of her, we were each other, we were each other, not that it mattered much in the long run but what else mattered as much.

In retrospect this had been my omen, my message, the early snowfall, the birthday present no one else could give me.

Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.

Whenever someone told her not to think about something, it had quite the opposite effect. Once she knew she shouldn't dwell on something, it took on even more importance in her mind.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.