Quotes About Significance

I'm very sorry - the only words that could not rework into anything but what they signified.

Your name, Minka. Short for Wilhelmina. You know what it means? Chosen protection.

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more." ? Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

Does it even mean anything to him anymore? If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it, right?" Lacy

Aku menyayangimu, kataku, suaraku terdengar hampa karena tangis. Aku sangat menyayangimu hingga aku tak tahu aku akan hidup dengan siapa jika kau tidak ada. Dan bahkan jika usahaku menghabiskan waktu seluruh hidupku, aku akan membuatmu paham kenapa hidupmu membuat perbedaan.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

The past, I mean the real past, matters less than we pretend.

None of this means anything. Anything of significance, that is. I am just amusing myself, musing, losing myself in a welter of words. For words in here are a form of luxury, of sensuousness, they are all we have been allowed to keep of the rich, wasteful world from which we are shut away.

wanted to tell her about the blade of sunlight cleaving the velvet shadows of the public urinal that post-war spring afternoon in Regensburg, of the incongruous gaiety of the rain shower that fell the day of my father's funeral, of that last night with Boy when I saw the red ship under Blackfriars Bridge and conceived of the tragic significance of my life: in other words, the real things; the true things.

T]he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

God wants our lives to be significant!

Some scholars believe there have been approximately two billion Christians on this earth from the time of Jesus's resurrection until this day. The chances are very slim, but if it so happens that you're the least of those two billion believers, you're still greater than John the Baptist—which means you're greater than Daniel. The questions that now arise are, do you really know who you are?

Nor do we believe that we will not matter if we don't give care to others.

I find no evidence for believing that I matter any more than any other human being who ever existed or who ever will exist. Nor does any of them matter more than I do. We're elements in a process that began in the dim past and will develop through who knows what kind of future.

Only by the possession of a sense of humour am I saved from insignificance. To

I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.

People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.

The more tuned in you are to your purpose, and the more dedicated you are to growing toward it, the better your chances of reaching your potential, expanding your possibilities, and doing something significant.

To be significant, all you have to do is make a difference with others wherever you are, with whatever you have, day by day.