Quotes About Significance

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

fBy living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.

Triple tongued is triple named

there are two types of people in the world-those who matter to his story and those who don't.

As though, after five years, a light's been switched on, and how Camille Gardener feels is the only thing that matters

There's a weight to having a destination and a purpose, even if that purpose is saying hi to a stranger as he's leaving a cemetery. It tethers me, the way being a mother used to. It makes me feel as though I'm part of something more important than myself.

raising children is one of the most significant, meaningful, and profound experiences of their lives. Is this just an evolutionary illusion, a trick to make us keep on reproducing? I'll argue that it's the real thing, that children really do put us in touch with truth, beauty, and meaning.

All it takes is a single moment.

The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps down that led the Son of God to the cross of Calvary, and we do not understand it till we see it in this context.

The death of a collaborator gives us an unnerving premonition that a like violence—a heavy or sharp tool that slips, an automobile collision, a microbe—could abruptly befall us in our time and space of work and reason, and could annihilate, along with our future, the significance of our past.

Children often overestimate their importance in the parent's life

When you think about it, in the big scheme of things, our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup--important for richness of flavor, but still, not quite the main ingredient.

The flapping of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest can alter a hurricane hundreds of miles in the distance. Isn't it amazing that something so small can change the outcome of another thing so far away?

Por qué yo? A saber. Escribiré algo solemne y auténtico: soy ese ser poroso al que la gente otorga un papel crucial en su vida.

No es casualidad que los humanos lleven nombres en lugar de matrícula: el nombre es la llave de la persona. Es el delicado ruido de su cerradura cuando queremos abrir su puerta. Es la metálica melodía que hace que el don sea posible.

Sauf en cas de crime ignoble, je ne comprends pas qu'on rompe. Dire à quelqu'un que c'est terminé, c'est laid et faux. Ce n'est jamais terminé. Même quand on ne pense plus à quelqu'un, comment douter de sa présence en soi ? Un être qui a compté compte toujours.

Decirle a alguien que se ha terminado es feo y falso. Nunca se termina. Incluso cuando ya no piensas en alguien, ¿cómo dudar de su presencia dentro de ti? Un ser que ha contado para ti, siempre cuenta.

The war began in 1972. That was the year I awoke to a profound truth: no one on this earth is indispensable, except the enemy. ¶ Without an enemy, human beings are poor things indeed. Their lives are ordeals, crushed between insignificance and boredom. ¶ The enemy is the Savior. His mere existence is enough to revitalize humanity. Thanks to the enemy, that unfortunate accident called life becomes epic.

Siempre resulta más bonito llevar un nombre. Habitar unas sílabas que habitan un todo es uno de los asuntos más relevantes de esta vida.

À ce que je continue à vivre, dit Pannonique que ce genre de tautologie amusait. —Mais à quoi cela me sert-il ? —Je viens de vous le dire : à ce que je continue à vivre. —Ça ne me sert à rien. —Si. La preuve, c'est que vous êtes horrifiée à l'idée de ma mort. Vous avez besoin que je vive.—Pourquoi ? —Parce que vous m'aimez.

En adelante, sólo vivirás consagraciones. Los momentos que lo merezcan se verán revestidos de un manto de armiño y serán coronados en la catedral de tu cráneo. Tus emociones serán distintas.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.