Quotes About Significance

Whose you are matters more to the soul than who you are or what you are.

Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

But again He is equally present in sudden unexpected moments, and it is the neglect of these moments that is the most fruitful source of disbelief in Him.

If a lifetime in the end is remembered for a handful of days, this is one of them.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Three scarred faces. It's significant. You and Brooke and your friend Malik. It was always going to be.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

He understood that everybody's somebody to someone. He

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cÅ"ur de l'homme, faut-il s'en étonner ? Il n'y a qu'une minute de la vie à la mort.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

An arrow pointed into its center, above which were written the words YOU ARE HERE. This image had become ubiquitous on T-shirts as well as posters and I always felt mildly irritated by it, unsure of how to take it, whether it was meant to be comical or grave, to indicate the largeness of our lives or the insignificance.

It seemed like such a small thing and such a tremendous thing at once, like a secret I'd always tell myself, though I didn't know the meaning of it just yet.

It's that the work you do each day matters. Even if it's work that seems invisible. Even if it's work that doesn't lead to the outcome you hoped for. Even if others attempt to undo your work.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

Our culture pushes this idea that romantic love is somehow more significant than other forms of love.

When I am king, annual birthdays will be banned and we will instead celebrate birthdays once every five years. With such large delays in birthday celebrations, maybe we can bring ourselves to actually care when someone has one.

The mediocrity principle establishes our worth as equal to that of the universe.

It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages...

The virtue that is not automatic requires more attention than it is worth.