Quotes About Significance

I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.

I could write more, but that is all that matters.

Allora il mio papà merita di stare nell'archivio' 'Cosa ti fa pensare che sia un bene starci?' 'Pechè vuol dire che uno è biograficamente significativo' 'E perché, questo è un bene?' 'Io voglio essere significativo.' 'Nove persone significative su dieci hanno a che fare coi soldi o con la guerra

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good." "And

But not even to save your life?" "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

And so it is with prayer, with true prayer, which is never a request, and never praise, but the expression of something of extreme significance that would otherwise have no way to be expressed. As Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, 'Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.' We are made worthy, made righteous, by expression.

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It

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La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante

In fact, I think they should be called Lack's finches and not Darwin's. Darwin didn't see the significance of the birds. He thought there was just one species per island. He didn't even try to pull it together - he didn't do a bloody thing with them except collect them.

Si recordamos que Moisés descubrió a Dios en una zarza insignificante que ardía en medio del desierto, si tenemos en cuenta que Buda alcanzó la iluminación durmiendo debajo de una higuera, si no olvidamos que Jesucristo nació en un pesebre… podemos darnos cuenta de la poca importancia que tiene el dónde empiezas en comparación con la grandeza del hacia dónde vas.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Cada persona que pasa por nuestra vida es única. Siempre deja un poco de sí y se lleva un poco de nosotros. Habrá los que se llevarán mucho, pero no habrá de los que no nos dejarán nada. Esta es la prueba evidente de que dos almas no se encuentran por casualidad.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

un acto es menos que todas las horas de un hombre.

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people—perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven—but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.

Perhaps he meant that there is no fact, however insignificant, that does not involve universal history and the infinite concatenation of cause and effect.

Deeds which populate the dimensions of space and which reach their end when someone dies may cause us wonderment, but one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies in every final agony, unless there is a universal memory as the theosophists have conjectured. In time there was a day that extinguished the last eyes to see Christ; the battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with the death of a man. What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of all significant effect and reduced to the level of a banality, philosophy will never prosper.

There is no need to waste words showing that not everything is useless which cannot be brought under the definition of the useful.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.