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?

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.

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