Individual Significance Quotes

I'm not begging to be remembered or whatever. I did my thing, and if you remember, that's even better. But if you don't, there's so many other things going on.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

The great would have none great and the little all little.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.

In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

I don't feel like I have a legacy.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?