Personal Significance Quotes

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

The Lord is in the details of our lives.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

The book is my Bible.

I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.

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.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

My religion is very important to me.

I remember Tim Meadows gave me a radio. It was a radio he didn't want anymore. I gave it to my grandmother, and she had it 'til the day she died. To me, it was, 'I got a thing from Tim Meadows!' I think my grandmother was like, 'I got a thing from my grandson!'

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.