significance

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

When people can't handle your light, it's because they haven't yet discovered their own, and you are a reminder of that. Don't take it personal, and don't shrink or hide. Either they will choose to shine or grab a pair of shades.

It was the artists who finally gave their times and places significance. Paul felt the presence of their ghosts out in the world, just as felt them in his office and in his head. The air was full of them. They were everywhere and always would be.

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

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

The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.

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

there is no significance in life without struggle

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.

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

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man's confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused of not loving enough by human standards - which should be its motivation to love more - however that is, in many cases, because its focus is and should also be to love on levels of eternal significance. This is the level of love that will inevitably go unnoticed by those who do not believe in eternity.

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.

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity__rom insect to animal to human wanderer__topped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not.

You matter.You are important.There is a reason for your existence.You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn't cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignor

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free _ and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: __ am not too concerned with what i__ going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.

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