Quotes About Significance

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Day One of my life was the day I met you.

What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?

Technically he was right, Jarel knew. So why should it seem so important?

That's the way with sentimental things: it's the memory the junk conjures that's valuable, not the junk itself.

Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.

I'll convert you!Into a stew.A nice little, white little, missionary stew!

You can live in this world and make all the money you could ever dream of and be as beautiful as you want and be as educated as you please and accomplish whatever you want to, but if you die without accomplishing your purpose, you are a failure, a reject, and a fool.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

Life has no value!' Truly right. It has no value. If you think only of yourself, it has no value. 'Why was I born?' The reason you are here... is because someone supported your life.

Odd how you can live the bulk of your life without someone. Then once you meet her and she becomes part of your life, you can't imagine living another day without sharing it with her.

Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it.

Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.

In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they've zipped past you: the moment when you decided whether to talk to that girl, slow down on that blind bend, stop and find that condom. I was lucky, I guess you could call it. I got to see one of mine face-to-face, and recognize it for what it was.

I've only got a handful of memories, and I don't want them wearing away, textures rubbing smooth, colors fading from overexposure. When I take them out, once in a blue moon, I need them bright enough to catch my breath and sharp enough to cut.