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

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

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

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...

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...

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

And you better believe that I’ll be protecting what’s mine.

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,...

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

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...

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.

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

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

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

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.

The tallest mountain in Tibet is just part of the scenery.

A place without meaning is no place to be.

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

there is no significance in life without struggle

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.

True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most.

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

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...

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time; sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do – you will always see that you’re...

As much as I don’t care about those things, I think it’s human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered.

The universe doesn’t hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.

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.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let’s keep it in perspective.

Mistake this day as being like any other, and your deaths will go as unmourned as the insects of the field.

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.

Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

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

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,...

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

A person who does many things differently and often independently makes perhaps the biggest difference of the highest significance for the greatest excellence in everyone’s life.

[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...

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.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn’t a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

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