Quotes About Significance

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Life is finite. (Duh.) Time is valuable. (Ditto.) And so am I. I'm valuable. I'm starting to treat myself as valuable.

God calls each and every star by name. It's not likely He has forgotten yours.

What God is doing is trying to help us see that there is a fight to be fought, a race to be run, something of eternal significance to be contended for. He's calling us to greater purpose, but he knows how easy it is to just eat a good meal, relax with a nice drink, and forget about the brevity of life on earth.

Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things.

You'll begin to believe that you are who God says you are. Unique. Special. Valuable.

Only when someone becomes vital do we try to give that first encounter the importance it would later have

It was not recklessness when you risked nothing, when what you did made no difference to anyone, not even to yourself.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

You should make your life count right up to the last minute.

which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

When does a bush that burns become a Burning Bush?

In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity.

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.

Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Everything that exists has value, is a being of distinction … [H]ence it asserts, maintains itself.

T]he essence of man is one, but this essence is infinite; … Between me and another human being - … , even though he is only one, … he supplies to me the want of many others, has … a universal significance, is the deputy of mankind, … In another I … have the consciousness of humanity; … I … learn, I … feel, that I am a man: … community constitutes humanity.

If rapid and erratic variations in prices were usually encountered in the market, the conception of objective exchange-value would not have attained the significance that it is actually accorded both by consumer and producer.

So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.

It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squirrel? No, because there's something so much bigger you notice first.

There is something else about memory, something Thomas hadn't brought up. It's not a video recording. It's subjective. It's a culturally relevant account of what happened. It doesn't matter if it's accurate; it matters if it's important in some way to you. If it teaches you something you need to learn.