yearning for significance Quotes

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, air, thinnest air. And so we revolve around each other and our dreams collide. Look out the window in any weather. We are part of all that glamour, drama, change, and should not be ashamed.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...