Finding Significance Quotes

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

There are no meaningless experiences.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.