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Quotes About Significance

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained' (Rumi, Mathnawi
~ Idries Shah
The value of the Dwelling lies in the Dweller.
~ Idries Shah
La valía de la Morada yace en el Morador.
~ Idries Shah
When you find the absolute values, you are important to this world because you know what is important. Those who know what is truly important are helpful to this world, because they won't put their personal concerns before what is important to all.
~ Ilchi Lee
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
~ Colin Powell
We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.
~ Colson Whitehead
All my other loves cannot compete with the one at the centre of my heart, my mind, and my destiny.
~ Unknown
Be, He will, all things to all people, yet it is my mission to show the world my Him for if that is lost in the noise, then the origins of all Him are too lost.
~ Unknown
Everything matters and nothing matters.
~ Unknown
For some reason I, out of billions, had been chosen for this purpose to pursue something that reaches far beyond my singular being.
~ Unknown
The moment we realise our place as insignificant, we can use our human power of the mind to build something of significance and this is what I intend to achieve; all that I wish to do is to create to contribute and to be remembered for my contribution to humanity's progression.
~ Unknown
"One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world."
~ Confucius
Anyone can change the world. But no one can change it forever. In a hundred years, no one you know will be alive. What will it matter then if we fought or just spent our days sleeping in the sun?
~ Conn Iggulden
Life is too valuable to be wasted and it lasts too short
~ Conn Iggulden
You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight
~ Conn Iggulden
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
~ Conrad Hall
o que mais nos faz sofrer talvez seja justamente a relevância excessiva que atribuímos à nossa presença no mundo, pois essa relevância é a pedra de fundação de todas nossas obstinadas repetições, é graças a ela que insistimos em ser sempre "iguais a nós mesmos" (sendo que, no caso, essa expressão não tem um sentido positivo).
~ Unknown
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
~ Unknown
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that marks a turning point.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
It was, without question, one of the best days of her entire adult life. Because of him.
~ Unknown
This wasn't just some girl—this was Lauren. Lauren, the girl you marry.
~ Unknown
It is as true as breath. It is as important as the words of children.
~ Craig Childs