Quotes about Significance

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

You are here for a reason.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

WHAT is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Life in community with broken people will always include such disappointments. But they can be met with resilience, and with a faith in the eternal significance of a life lived with the suffering. Such a life will never be easy or tidy; the work is endless and will always stretch on before us.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.