Quotes About Significance

It is about realising that in every human being is a frightened beast, seeking survival and significance, and knowing very well that humans can outgrow this beast as they empathise with others.

If people around us behave like deer, it means we are behaving like lions. If people around us behave like lions, it means they see us as deer. If people around us behave like dogs, friendly or hostile, it means we matter to them.

But somethings are just too important to let fear stand in the way.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

The preservation of the cathedral tradition had huge significance for the future of Anglicanism, and it may be Queen Elizabeth's chief original contribution to her Church.

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

When we love somebody, whether it be a friend, a parent, a child, whether it be conjugal love or neighborly love, the beloved person always stands before us as something precious and noble in himself.

The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.

I was reminded that without him I made an impact on no one. I was seen, and perhaps occasionally heard, strictly by strangers, and always in passing. I was a much poorer man for this than I had ever thought.

ÄŒovek koji se ne pamti, prijatelju moj, nije ni postojao.

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

It was an awful word. Nothing. It made him sick at heart. He refused to believe it. Hebdemanded that there be something he could do. He demanded that his love be worth something to his child. If it wasn't, life was garbage. He hd to rulenout the idea that life was just a matter of accident, of percentages, because it was just too goddamn much to stand for. There had to be some way you could make yourself be felt.

I think that the effort is to reach a realm of meaning that is not quite sayable. You stay away from what can be said and you try to reach what cant quite be said. Yet it is nevertheless meaningful. And there is such a realm and it is very difficult to talk about. Its not quite nonverbal, but that comes fairly close.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.