Quotes about Significance

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

What is my position in society?" The one best suited to your talents, which you can hold with honor. Each person has a vital role in society; you are important right where you are. But if you lose your honor in striving for greater (perceived) significance, you become useless.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

There was no water. Food by tons would have no value. You need water to survive. If the ravens brought Elijah filet steaks, fresh vegetables and the best-tasting bread it would have meant nothing.

What makes a bit of ground holy? It is when and where God shows up. He can do this anywhere at any time. This means that the most insignificant place can be declared holy when God moves in. It can come when you least expect it.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so that the world will at least be a little different for our having passed through it.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.