Quotes About Significance

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Life is too short for non-WOW projects.