Quotes About Significance

every day in every life is of the most profound importance.

The life of a seamstress is no smaller than the life of a queen, the life of a child with Down syndrome no less filled with promise than the life of a philosopher, because the only significant measure of your life is the positive effect you have on others, either by conscious acts of will or by unconscious example.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.

My wife, who is the linchpin of my life, claims that I have a presence much bigger than my physique. She says that people measure me by the impression I make on them. I find this notion ludicrous. It is bullshit born of love.

we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

By relocating from this world to the one where Jeffy and Amity yearned for her, she'd be taking an action that would spawn other parallel lives for herself, of which she, in this incarnation, had no knowledge. Other than her husband and daughter, whose lives would be affected by her action, how many others would live additional lives that branched from her action, and did it matter?

Raising Amity provided sufficient meaning to make any life worth living. He didn't say as much to Amity

Marriage is one of the most important decisions in anyone's life, so it should be deeply felt decision. It should feel inevitable. It's the union of two lives, after all. So you can't simply check your watch and announce 'it's time.

Interviewing Questions •What do you enjoy most about this season of the year? •What got you involved in this organization/event? •If you weren't here, what would you be doing at this very moment? •If you could meet any one person, whom would you choose? •Tell me about an issue that matters a great deal to you. •What has been your most important work experience?

Invest your time in what is personally meaningful and relevant

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

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You ever hear of Little Christmas?" he asked her. "'Course," she said. "January sixth." "Nobody remembers it anymore." "Meant something in my time," she said. "My old man's too." Her voice picked up a tone of distracted pity. "Not yours, though." "Not mine," Bob agreed and felt a trapped

Very few of us can or will be famous. But all of us can be significant.

I knew it the first time I saw you. I don't completely understand our connection myself, but it's real. And it means something." He's talking fast, leaning in toward me. "It means everything .

What now matters most is that we avoid ending human history. If there are no rational beings elsewhere, it may depend on us and our successors whether it will all be worth it, because the existence of the Universe will have been on the whole good.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

The moment feels laden with mystery and tension, as if for one second the world has agreed to pay attention to time itself.

Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad. You do remember your father? No. I remember yours.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

All the names I've called you through the years—my chick, my pumpkin, precious dove, darling, sweetheart, dinky, smudge Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?