significance

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

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

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

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.

Jealousy is when you want something that you can__ have, something that doesn't belong to you. Being protective is defending what__ yours._ He leaned in, his hand closing around my jaw as his nose skimmed up to mine. __nd you better believe that I__l be protecting what__ mine.

When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?__ scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. __hen will you learn that it__ up to you if you play those parts or not?

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

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.

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.

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 man may do some honest work in his own corner.

A place without meaning is no place to be.

[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 you a meaning. Meaning is a concept. It is a notion of an end toward which you are going. The point of Buddhism is This Is It.

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.

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant _ for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

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.

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

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

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.