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.