100 Quotes About Significance

The most powerful words in the world are three little words: “I love you.” They’re the most important words in any language and no one can deny their power or their meaning. Some people say they’re too late, but we’ve all heard them before and we all know they’ll always be true and everlasting. Some people say love is a battle, but we see it as a well-fought war. There are those who want to fight it, but they don’t know how. Just as there are those who want to run from it, but they don’t know how Read more

When love looks like a battlefield, you might find yourself fighting for all that you have and for all that you want to hold on to. Know the power of these three little words: I Love You.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's...
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It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. Neil Gaiman
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life...
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Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. Rick Warren
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How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Sirius and others, and one's life span in comparison with billions on billions of ages. There is only one significance, you are a worker. The assignment is inscribed in your reason and heart and expressed clearly and comprehensibly by the best among the beings similar to you. The reward for doing the assignment is immediately within you. But what the significance of the assignment is or of its completion, that you are not given to know, nor do you need to know it. It is good enough as it is. What else could you desire?. Leo Tolstoy
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Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things. Alberto Caeiro
Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether...
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Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly. Sunday Adelaja
When you see injustice among the nations, you will find...
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When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes. Sunday Adelaja
Every risk that you take in order for you to...
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Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take. Sunday Adelaja
Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because...
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Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose. Sunday Adelaja
If you have committed all things to impacting a life...
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If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance. Sunday Adelaja
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Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don’t look down on yourself. Sunday Adelaja
A person could waste an important part of his living...
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A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact lives around, the family and in the community or in the society. Sunday Adelaja
You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you...
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You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance. Sunday Adelaja
Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go...
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Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant. Sunday Adelaja
If it is only one thing in life that you...
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If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance. Sunday Adelaja
When what you are insulted by meets what you have...
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When what you are insulted by meets what you have a strong desire to do, then that would bring you significance. Sunday Adelaja
It is a good thing to live long but it...
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It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance. Sunday Adelaja
A life that is actually lived is one that is...
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A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance. Sunday Adelaja
When you live for the purpose of making a difference...
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When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you. Sunday Adelaja
After you have made the discovery of your own significance,...
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After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive. Sunday Adelaja
It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish...
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It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them. Sunday Adelaja
To live intentionally implies that it is not going to...
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To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up. Sunday Adelaja
For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there...
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For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness. Sunday Adelaja
You must burn with the desire to seek new things...
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You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information Sunday Adelaja
Wealth can only be multiplied through work
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Wealth can only be multiplied through work Sunday Adelaja
Transformation takes place within us when we learn to be...
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Transformation takes place within us when we learn to be intentional and go from focusing on me to others, success to significance, limited to limitless, and scarcity to abundance. Farshad Asl
True Leadership is having multiple generations working together successfully and...
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True Leadership is having multiple generations working together successfully and passionately to create significance. Farshad Asl
A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into...
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A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance. Farshad Asl
Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a...
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Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective. Vera Nazarian
Never do anything local or insignificant
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Never do anything local or insignificant Sunday Adelaja
God gave you a special purpose, do not see yourself...
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God gave you a special purpose, do not see yourself as insignificant Sunday Adelaja
Your goal and destination also fill your life with meaning...
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Your goal and destination also fill your life with meaning and make it significant Sunday Adelaja
YOU are important. You are special. You are loved. GOD...
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YOU are important. You are special. You are loved. GOD has a plan for your life! Find out what it is and you'll experience a depth of fulfillment you never thought possible. J.E.B. Spredemann
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Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die. Farshad Asl
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Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus. Shannon L. Alder
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He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor. Alain De Botton
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As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything. Max Weber
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All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe that we are living out our lives as best we can, and that we have our own sphere of influence which exists of both friends and enemies. They in turn have their own friends and enemies with whom they interact. That is a given. But we, each of us, tend to put ourselves ahead of others because we believe that we are significant. We must attend to our own needs, desires, wants, and aspirations, because each of us is our own greatest priority. No one else cares for us as much as we do, no one else can exist in our skin. We think we're important. It is where our sense of self-worth comes up, where our egos reside, where "we" are. And we believe that each of our lives means something. Peter David
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Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We’re alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have. A.J. Darkholme
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And yet, protest it if we will, Some corner of the mind retains The medieval man, who still Keeps watch upon those starry skeins And drives us out of doors at night To gaze at anagrams of light. Adrienne Rich
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The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams. A.J. Darkholme
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Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own. A.J. Darkholme
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Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses. A.J. Darkholme
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Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good. A.J. Darkholme
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[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see. Garth Greenwell
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All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth. William James
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You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life. Mandy Hale
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So I was just thinking about how something happened today and it was quite insightful, humbling and puts things into perspective. If you look at anything, everything has it's 'story' so to speak. For instance, for me to even write this status requires an obscene amount of processes (essentially limitless). Just the biological processes that have to take place are in the trillions. Then you add the technological component, the psychology behind it(self-awareness/consciousness). Then you start looking at the macro factors behind it which include how I came into existence, how life came to be for that to occur, how earth came to be, the sun, the solar system, the galaxy, universe..etc. So the odds for all those things to occur for me to write a simple (or not so simply) status like this..is pretty fucking incredible to say the least. . Michael R. Kitay
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People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see the point of why God had you hang in there with them for so long. Remember this: Sometimes meeting someone has nothing to do with what you can provide for him or her and everything to do with what God needs you to recognize in that person. If you didn’t understand the message, God will keep sending the same person or situation into your life. Shannon L. Alder
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Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through. A.J. Darkholme
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To gain significance, you must first realise that you are insignificant. Manoj Vaz
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If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the significance of dreams and the power of actions without which you are just making a living. Israelmore Ayivor
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Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever. A.J. Darkholme
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Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you. Catrice M. Jackson
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Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders. A.J. Darkholme
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If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs. A.J. Darkholme
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We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future. A.J. Darkholme
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Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance. Criss Jami
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We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others. Tom Hayes
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Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies. Vera Nazarian
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The apocalypse was supposed to be cliché drama, Godzilla roaming the streets and zombies crawling from graves to devour the living. I guess all of humankind wanted to believe they’d end with a bang instead of unnoticed silence. We all, deep down, want to believe in a future where our historical monuments and literature hold significance. We want our deaths to be important. We want to matter. Caroline George
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The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised, the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked, and the natural obstacles, which time and space offer to mutual intercourse, have been reduced in a manner, and to an extent, unknown to former ages. The diminution or removal of local ignorance and prejudice, the creation of common interests among the most widely separated peoples, and the strengthening of the forces of the organisation of the commonwealth against those of political or social anarchy, thus effected, have exerted an influence on the present and future fortunes of mankind the full significance of which may be divined, but cannot, as yet, be estimated at its full value. Thomas Henry Huxley
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th Ernest Rutherford
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Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance. April Mae Monterrosa
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Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Life supports what supports more of life Anthony Robbins
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Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire. Shannon L. Alder
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We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day. Alain De Botton
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Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow. A.J. Darkholme
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The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it. A.J. Darkholme
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We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant — for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague. A.J. Darkholme
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What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it? A.J. Darkholme
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[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won't give you a meaning. Meaning is a concept. It is a notion of an end toward which you are going. The point of Buddhism is This Is It. Joseph Campbell
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She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning. Gary Shteyngart
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A place without meaning is no place to be. Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner. Thomas Hughes
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He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe. Michael Bassey Johnson
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When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?” I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not? Shelly Crane
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Jealousy is when you want something that you can’t have, something that doesn't belong to you. Being protective is defending what’s yours.” He leaned in, his hand closing around my jaw as his nose skimmed up to mine. “And you better believe that I’ll be protecting what’s mine. Shelly Crane
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What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. "Anything, " I whispered back. Shelly Crane
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True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most. Shelly Crane
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The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough. Shelly Crane
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi
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There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well. Morton Shaevitz
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I didn't want to be ordinary, " I mumbled. My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?""You know. Someone you forget." From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled, " That's what keeps me from being forgotten. Mitch Albom
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. Alain De Botton
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While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored. Viet Thanh Nguyen
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We all do think of doing something in life;be it significant or not, do something positive. If you pursue great footsteps, you leave great footprints Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time. John Brockman
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The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance. Frederick Buechner
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale. Stanley Kubrick
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I keep saying there's no Choice, and what I've meant is that you can't choose: you have no right or ability to select one of the two alternatives. But I didn't go far enough. There's no Choice because the Choice itself is wrong. It's a false dilemma. The alternatives are not alternatives at all. Long versus short, quiet versus heroic: they're the same. In the scope of infinity, in a universe with no edge, human history is a flare and human consciousness is a blink. All lives are short and all lives are quiet. But all lives are glorious too, Cal. To live! To live like a human! You are ordinary and extraordinary all at once. You have a heart that contracts and relaxes and beats out your moments. You are alive and you know you are alive. Your too-short time is long e. Kate Hattemer
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As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant. Megan McCafferty
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You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective. Lev Grossman
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People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what i’m going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people. Shane Claiborne
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This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free — and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over. A.J. Darkholme
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You matter. You are important. There is a reason for your existence. You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn't cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignor Richelle E. Goodrich
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A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to animal to human wanderer―stopped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not. Richelle E. Goodrich