#significance

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#apathy #insignificance #mediocrity #change

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

— Vera Nazarian

#essence #future #gist #horizon #meaning

I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there. ↗

— Michael Cooper

#college #coming #help #here #i

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#apparently #call #emphasis #help #horn

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#life-changing #significance #change

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

— Neil Gaiman

#death #death-and-dying #etiquette #perspective #self-censorship

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

— Rick Warren

#hope #life #purpose #significance #life

Love doesn't excuse our faults: it makes them insignificant. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#insignificance #love #love

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

— Megan McCafferty

#humans #jessica-darling #significance #nature

struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature. ↗

— Garth Stein

#nature-s-grandeur #time #nature