Significance Quotes

[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

All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.

~ Mandy Hale

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

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

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

~ A.j. Darkholme

To gain significance, you must first realise that you are insignificant.

~ Manoj Vaz

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

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

Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you.

~ Catrice M. Jackson

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

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

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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

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

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

~ Vera Nazarian

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

Your personal health is your greatest possession, the most significant foundation of any future you will have.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th

~ Ernest Rutherford

Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

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

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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

What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

~ A.j. Darkholme

[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

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

A place without meaning is no place to be.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

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

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

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

~ Shelly Crane

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

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

I was just existing, but he made me want to live.

~ Shelly Crane