Quotes About Significance

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you're part of something important.

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

Aunque no se crea en ellas, aunque sean sencillas y se les dé apariencia de trámite, las ceremonias producen su efecto, y por eso se inventaron, supongo: para marcar una línea divisoria, establecer un antes y un después, para convertir en serio lo que no lo era, para subrayar y solemnizar. Para dar una noticia y que así ésta sea asumida, sancionada por la comunidad.

por sentir que já adquiriu direitos com o passar dos meses e dos anos iguais, pela simples acumulação de tempo, como se algo tão insignificante e tão neutro como a sucessão de dias supusesse um mérito para aquele que os atravessa, ou porventura o que os aguenta sem fugir nem se render.

Of course, neither Doug nor Andrew walked away from the parade thinking, "I enjoyed my particular perspective on the parade based on the information I paid attention to." Each walked away thinking, "I enjoyed the parade." Each assumes that what he paid attention to was what was significant about the experience. Each assumes he has "the facts.

Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at its highest level...A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Sixth graders had stopped asking Now what? and had started asking So what? She had not been sorry to retire when she did.

For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all.

There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all. I

if a good sign is so important you can just as soon make one up and fool yourself that way.

Finding a secret can make everything else unimportant, you know.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

What it doesn't say — but only points to — is more important than what it says.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.

Making it" in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don't make it, so you need other human beings to "fail" so that your life can have meaning.

If you feel your life lacks significance or is too stressful or tedious, it is because you haven't brought that dimension into your life yet. Being conscious in what you do has not yet become your main aim. The new earth arises as more and more people discover that their main purpose in life is to bring the light of consciousness into this world and so use whatever they do as a vehicle for consciousness. The joy of Being is the joy of being conscious.

to sin means to miss the mark, as an archer who misses the target, so to sin means to miss the point of human existence.

The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.

You are here to enable the divinepurpose of the universe to unfold.That is how important you are! — Eckhart Tolle

The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition.

What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you.