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Significance Quotes

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

"What Will Matter". Poem by Michael Josephson, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2003.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, p.567, Leo Tolstoy

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.

"David Lynch: Life Coach". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 12, 2015.

Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.

"'See you next summer': Alex Hirsch says goodbye to Gravity Falls". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Edith Wharton, Janet Beer (2002). “The House of Mirth”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation