What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
I don't understand that if you look wonderful, does that make you less important, less powerful, less serious?
What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.
I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.
When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.
