Quotes About Significance

They're good words. Not good enough to welcome a child into the world and into the community. No words are good enough to do that, and yet, somehow, words are needed. Ceremony is needed.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not die without them. We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum. We have even attempted to speak in the language of flowers. How could we live without them? It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence.

no great significance that are too highly valued. It is in the feet that all knowledge of Mankind lies hidden; the body sends them a weighty sense of who we really are and how we relate to the earth. It's in the touch of the earth, at its point of contact with the body that the whole mystery is located—the fact that we're built of elements of matter, while also being alien to it, separated from it. The feet—those are our plugs into the socket.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Vedi, nemmeno a contatto con l'infinito un uomo diventa grande se in lui non v'è grandezza. Andar sulla Luna non ci rende certo migliori.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

Calling transforms life so that even the commonplace and menial are invested with the splendour of the ordinary.

The truth is that we are a generation that has too much to live with and too little to live for.

Time and history have meaning. Under the twin truths of God's sovereignty and human significance, time and history are going somewhere, and each us is not only unique and significant in ourselves, but we have a unique and significant part to play in our own lives, in our own generation, and therefore in the overall sweep of history.

It seems that a physically weak man is of less value to society than even a lame horse.

What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

Apa pun pekerjaanmu..apa pun kastamu..kau tetap bisa mencapai pencerahan, tapi kau harus mempertimbangkan yang berikut ini.. Apa yang sudah pernah kaulakukan? Apakah itu berguna bagimu? Apakah itu berguna bagi orang lain? Atau apakah itu berguna bagi orang banyak? Apakah itu berguna bagi negerimu? Apakah itu juga berguna bagi dunia? Apa itu sangat penting bagi semua makhluk hidup dan seluruh alam? Jika tidak, kau harus berhenti.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purpose, and yours may be that life.

The fact that it doesn't matter much to you may mean that it matters a great deal to God. Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a child of God. How much longer are we going to prevent God from teaching us even one thing? But He keeps trying to teach us and He never loses patience.

I do not believe it is possible to exaggerate what she has been in the way of a Sacrament out here—God conveying His presence through the common elements of an ordinary life.

My personal life may be crowded with small, petty happenings, altogether insignificant. But if I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. Then, when I stand face to face with God, I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed.

For us, the events which took place between 1500 and 1800 on the soil of Western Europe constitute the most important third of "world" history; for the Chinese historian, on the contrary, who looks back on and judges by 4000 years of Chinese history, those centuries generally are a brief and unimportant episode, infinitely less significant than the centuries of the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.), which in his "world" history are epoch-making.

Everyone has a soul. But the great man—the truly significant soul—is rare.