significance

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
9b8667b	Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.	hope life purpose significance	Rick Warren
1755d7c	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.	intelligence professionalism significance vulnerability	Alain de Botton
b18a399	It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.	death death-and-dying etiquette perspective self-censorship significance truth	Neil Gaiman
9edea57	God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.	god significance usefulness	Charles R. Swindoll
4ef014f	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.	decisions ideas life significance thinking	Alain de Botton
7f9fb9f	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.	melodrama relationships self significance sorrows	Alain de Botton
60a6fbc	"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."	human ordinary-people seeking significance	Mitch Albom
f927859	I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our existence. Trouble is, you climb and climb, and around middle age, you discover you have spent all the time in the same spot. You thought you were going to be somebody until you slip down into the nobody that you are. I'm telling you because I know.	existence insignificance life middle-age significance	Jeanette Winterson
dffe172	The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.	meaning-of-life significance	Rebecca Goldstein

9b8667b

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

hope life purpose significance

Rick Warren

1755d7c

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.

intelligence professionalism significance vulnerability

Alain de Botton

b18a399

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

death death-and-dying etiquette perspective self-censorship significance truth

Neil Gaiman

9edea57

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

god significance usefulness

Charles R. Swindoll

4ef014f

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.

decisions ideas life significance thinking

Alain de Botton

7f9fb9f

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.

melodrama relationships self significance sorrows

Alain de Botton

60a6fbc

"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."

human ordinary-people seeking significance

Mitch Albom

f927859

I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our existence. Trouble is, you climb and climb, and around middle age, you discover you have spent all the time in the same spot. You thought you were going to be somebody until you slip down into the nobody that you are. I'm telling you because I know.

existence insignificance life middle-age significance

Jeanette Winterson

dffe172

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

meaning-of-life significance

Rebecca Goldstein