Quotes about Significance
I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.
- Olga Tokarczuk
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.
- Maya Angelou
A single candle has the power to light up a room, a single star has the power to light up the sky, and a single soul has the power to light up the world.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You were seen, you were heard and you matter.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every physical encounter has a metaphysical meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
- Confucius
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
- Cormac McCarthy
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
- Cormac McCarthy
If something did not love you you would not be here.
- Cormac McCarthy
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name.
- Cormac McCarthy