Quotes About Significance

It is only life that has meaning, not death,

It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the importance of a single flower, or blade of grass, or vegetable, or bird. It would make no difference if those men who held that ancient pass or that equally ancient fort had, instead, died of disease or old age or in a saloon fight. But it made a difference that they died where they did. It mattered. It justified their whole existence.

it is significant that the eunuch was reading the prophet Isaiah. Theodore Jennings Jr., professor of biblical and constructive theology at Chicago Theological Seminary, writes at length about the significance of this fact. "The Isaiah being read by the eunuch is the same prophet who specifically includes eunuchs in the divine dispensation. Moreover the passage the eunuch was pondering is one that he may well have connected to his situation as a eunuch:

A life has no importance except in the impact it has on other lives

The first birthday is the key to identity.

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

Is there a satisfaction in the effort of remembering that provides its own nourishment, and is what one recollects less important than the act of remembering? That is another question that will remain unanswered: I feel as though I am made of nothing else.

There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?

There's no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?

he's not my hero, he's my dad, which means he's my every single thing.

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Tú sabes cómo te digo que te quiero cuando digo: "qué calor hace", "dame agua", "¿sabes manejar?", "se hizo de noche"...Entre las gentes, a un lado de tus gentes y las mías, te he dicho "ya es tarde", y tú sabías que decía "te quiero".

Unhappiness] comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Oh how the world reflected you in its unending streams of atoms, churning atoms out of which significance beamed--significance, but not purpose.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

I'm no good at this kind of stuff, but you are suddenly the most important thing in my life

It's too easy to believe in our own importance when we're surrounded by our own creations all day.

I want to do something important." "It's the little things that make all the difference in the world. The kind words we speak and the simple things we do for people.

The commonplace deserves every bit as much attention as the sublime.

Sometimes all the energy you put into something you think matters doesn't matter one bit.

There is an abundant need in this world for your exact brand of beautiful.