Quotes About Significance

The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Do you really hold your life so cheaply? - Yes.

If one looks down on one's old village from a distant mountain pass, whatever details of that era may have faded from memory, the significance of having lived there becomes vividly apparent.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation.

Each of us has within ourselves a brilliant ray of light that gives value and meaning to our lives. In

But numbers alone don't count for much in history.

Con la aparición de la escritura empezamos a oír la historia a través de los oídos de sus protagonistas. Cuando los vecinos de Kushim lo llamaban, podían haber gritado realmente «¡Kushim!». Es revelador que el primer nombre registrado en la historia pertenezca a un contable, y no a un profeta, un poeta o un gran conquistador.

The journey of the first humans to Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus' journey to America or the Apollo II expedition to the moon.

When Kushim's neighbours called out to him, they might really have shouted 'Kushim!' It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.

Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus' journey to America or the Apollo II expedition to the moon. It was the first time any human had managed to leave the Afro-Asian ecological system – indeed, the first time any large terrestrial mammal had managed to cross from Afro-Asia to Australia.

What's the point of doing or experiencing anything if nobody knows about it, and if it doesn't contribute something to the global exchange of information?

The more significance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suffer

It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1

A falta de las almas eternas y de un Dios Creador, a los liberales les resulta embarazosamente difícil explicar qué es lo que tiene de tan especial el sapiens individual.

Life is like an hour glass, every grain of sand means something.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.