Quotes About Significance

One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others. There are so many boys in the world.

The sheer ordinariness of it all confounded Phoebe, as if any one of these things might happen several times a day, with no one watching. They belong to each other, she thought, and found herself awed by the notion -- knowing someone was there, just there, reaching for that person without a thought.

What can a photograph mean? It seems to me, now, that it's not so much the image itself as the fact that it was kept. In my own bedroom closet are three large boxes I labeled—late one night, in a dark mood—PLUTONIUM. They are filled with my own keepsakes and very heavy, decades of living distilled down to a few potent sentiments: tenderness, longing, regret.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.

Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.

Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

It doesn't matter unless you let it matter.

Heads I kiss you, tails you kiss me. Either way, it means something.

I was here. TF.

Maybe even the smallest places mean something.

Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.

There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.

But maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something....Let's go. Let's count for something. Let's get off that ledge.

we dont remember days, we remember moments

Even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they mean something to us.

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger:

my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger...

El gran pensamiento de mi vida es él. Si todo lo demás pereciera y él quedara, yo seguiría existiendo, y si todo lo demás permaneciera y el fuera aniquilado, el universo se me volvería del todo extraño, no me parecería que formara parte de él.

Si pudiera impedir que un corazón se rompa no habré vivido en vano. Si pudiera calmar el dolor de una vida, o hacer más llevadera una tristeza. o ayudar a algún débil petirrojo a que vuelva a su nido, no habré vivido en vano.

When the Best is gone - I know that other things are not of consequence - The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care.

Conosco delle vite di cui potrei fare a meno senza dolore alcuno altre un istante d'assenza delle quali sarebbe un'eternità queste ultime scarse di numero non sono nemmeno due le prime un orizzonte di moscerini facilmente supererebbero