Quotes About Significance

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have been at the time they occured.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. —Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

Eerily, the awakening occurred eighteen years to the day from Samuel Morse's "What hath God wrought" message. When Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson changed the nature of the war by marching to threaten Washington, Lincoln responded by changing the nature of his leadership.

All things in Life are of equal importance. Only their suspense dates differentiate one from another.

Some people care more about that happened a 100 thousand years ago than they care where they will be in 100 years from now.

There is no more powerful form of rejection than taking someone for granted.

Her boyfriend gives her a Mercedes, [her friends] say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But her boyfriend gives her a diamond, they say, 'Oh, he's serious.' It's not just the gift of love-it's the gift of commitment. She's not jumping up and down because she got a diamond ring but because she got a guy! There are those who say you don't need diamonds. I say they're right. Just like you don't need sex.

Este mai de dorit minimul de cunoa?tere a lucrurilor foarte importante decât cunoa?terea socotit?, foarte sigur? a lucrurilor foarte m?runte.

Even the lowest dog leaves its mark

Even the lowest dog leaves their mark

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

No living thing is insignificant.

six human needs and they are: contribution, growth, connection, significance, uncertainty, and certainty.

Frøken Aemelin, nesten alt det som folk gjør mot hverandre, betyr som handling betraktet svært lite. Det som er avgjørende, er deres formål, hvor de vil hen, hva de vil ha tak i.

V? tr? có m?t ý ngh?a, và chính con ng??i, khi hi?u nó, ?ã trao cho nó cái ý ngh?a ?ó.

It is your job to interpret the dice rolls and give meaning and impact to their results, not just report sports scores.

Emotions serve an important purpose—they clue you into things that you'll never understand if you don't take the time to ask yourself why.

That significance is not founded in their historicity but in their theology; not in what happened (or even that something did happen) but in why it happened. What was God doing? That is where the significance is to be found.