Quotes About Significance

Sarojini Naidu, India's great poetess and a redoubtable freedom fighter, told. Once she signed an autograph for a young boy and when she asked him if he knew who she was, he said, 'You are C. K. Nayudu's wife!

I saw the significance of this pattern immediately. The men all had individual opinions. The feminists all had the same opinion. The men embraced individualism. The feminists embraced collectivism.

He longs for. We are what He waits for as His inheritance. Knowing this, it is inconceivable that we would languish in the despair of insignificance. If only we could see who we are because of Him! We can confidently say, "I may never have a big ministry, I may never have a big business and I may never be well recognized in the arenas of man, but I will never be insignificant. I am the one He loves. I am the one He died for. I am the one He longs for. I am the one He waits for.

The difference between our love and the love you have for her is like the difference between knowing something in your head and knowing something in your heart. In your head, you think you love me because we see the world the same way, we feel the same things - in a way we're almost like twins - but what you and her have is much more special because it's not about what you have in common, it's about the way she makes you feel in your heart. And the heart wins every time.

Details are important when a day is special to you. But the difficult thing is that quite often you do not know a day is special until long after it is over.

Work is where we form a sense of identity. It is how we leverage the skills and experience we have gained over the years, and where we can see the results of our efforts. You don't have to be a champion skier, the CEO of a global corporation, or a rock star for your labors to have personal significance. You just have to connect with your work in a way that provides meaning and a sense of overall purpose.

a broken toy an orphan would likely toss aside meant more than all the expensive gifts in the world.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

Maybe my life can be significant—not on a grand scale like my brother, but to a few people

My life is nothing. It wouldn't have any meaning without putting it to good use. Don't you think?

He had become almost inured to death; his frailty had reinforced his conviction that he must do something of consequence while he had the time.

My life is nothing. It wouldn't have any meaning without putting it to good use

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

I was surprised she'd heard us. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you. My sense of invisibility had made me loose-lipped.

When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you.

contact between people is more important than convenience.

Each day your life grows a day shorter. Make every move count.

It's sad and beautiful how a few hours can come to stand for the many others that never were. One looks back and holds up a handful of hours to prove, "That was what it was, it was so perfect," in spite of what one knows, in spite of all the other days that came before and after.

I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

Quizá no viva dentro de una historia importante, quizá sea tan solo un personaje secundario pero, para un hombre que afronta el final de su vida, cualquier perspectiva es preferible a la de desaparecer para siempre

Cea mai minunat? femeie din lume este cea care te iube?te cu adev?rat ?i pe care o iube?ti cu adev?rat. Nimic altceva nu conteaz?.

Noi nu suntem obiecte, ci procese. Eu sunt, în cele din urm?, c?utarea mea de sine. Exist pentru c? m? caut pe mine însumi. Nu m? caut ca s? m? g?sesc: faptul c? m? caut pe mine însumi este semnul c? deja m-am g?sit.

As a man's name is not made small by his actions.