#significance

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#life-changing #significance #change

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #death-and-dying #etiquette #perspective #self-censorship

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#assume #conceals #love #profound #significance

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#attraction #camera #concentrate #extremely #feel

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. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#history #i #intrigued #man #obscured

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#coaches #era #every #holds #i

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#events #find #happen #lives #order

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. ↗

— William Thomas

#deal #fact #her #his #important

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#difference #paradox #significance #action

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. ↗

— Herbert Read

#deeper #existence #experience #human #human existence