Quotes About Significance

Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence -- by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present -- but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word "quarters" the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.

The novel tends to tell us everything,' wrote V.S. Pritchett in his introduction to the Oxford Book of Short Stories, 'whereas the short story tells us only one thing, and that, intensely'.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

Every moment is important; like the moment that takes away your life.

You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there.

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

You'd have to look hard to find Oliver's name in a history book. But in that small mining camp in Fayette County, West Virginia, Oliver did something important: he changed on life, and that life changed many.

You will find that thing that makes you unafraid to die. That important thing that makes your life of value.

Knowing that somewhere in the world there is someone who cares what you wore, an insignificant detail of your life that would seem unimportant to anyone else, makes you feel more connected to that person and less alone in the world.

This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.

At a place known only to them they buried Crazy Horse somewhere near Chankpe Opi Wakpala, the creek called Wounded Knee.

I was thinking this was a great teaching moment, where they'd finally come to see that even something teeny-tiny can be big enough.

You are here for a reason.

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you. In the title Shiva Sutra, the word Shiva means "God" and the word Sutra means "thread," so quite deliberately the reader is being shown tiny threads that lead back to the eternal source.

I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.

uno no sabe que tiene alzheimer cuando olvida dónde puso las llaves del coche, sino cuando olvida para qué son.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

Word is a shadow of deed.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

My worth had nothing to do with a job or a paycheck. My worth, everyone's worth, is based on God-given value.

I am so small, a speck of dust moving across the huge world. The world a speck of dust in the universe. Are you holding the universe? You hold onto my smallness. How do you grasp it, how does it not slip away? I know so little. You have brought me so far.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Someone has put a huge sign across the World Financial Center reading WE WILL NEVER FORGET. It ripples gently in the wind above a thrirty-foot-wide American flag. I appreciate this sentiment, and the fact that it has been stated in twenty-foot-tall lettering. But I can't help thinking, we do forget. Ultimately, we find that it is almost always in our interest to do so, for our own benefit as a society.