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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kingdoms, Helping, Kingdom Of God

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

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• Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

  Kevin Kline

  Ambition, Contribution

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• The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Appreciate, Hiding

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2009

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• No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Real, Teaching

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• The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Men, Desire

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

  William James

  Mystical Experiences, Natural, Formulas

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Family, Success

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• The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

  William Colby

  War, Agency, Government

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• It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

  John Piper

  Greatness, Men, Made

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• Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

  Kate Atkinson

  People, Events, Retrospect

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.412, Random House

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• Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

  T. B. Joshua

  Life Is Too Short, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

  Grant Morrison

  Magic, Way, Doe

  "Grant Morrison: Master & Commander (PART 4: Highway X)". Interview with Jonathan Ellis, Pop Image, July 5, 2004.

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• Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

  Timothy Keller

  Feelings

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• I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in … because when you improvise you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow—you’re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your ego… You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

  Charlie Haden

  Thinking, Yesterday, Giving

  "'Live In The Present': Charlie Haden Remembered". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2014.

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• Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.

  Mike Murdock

  Differences, Similarity

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• Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Mean, Talking, Europe

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• The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.

  Dale Rex Coman

  Life, Intelligent, Essence

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• Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers.

  Mary Katharine Ham

  Circles, Political, Trying

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• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

  Vance Havner

  Ambition, Self, Rose

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• Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?

  George Eliot

  Work, Struggle, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2423, Delphi Classics

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• It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Meaningful, Time, Sacrifice

  Anne Graham Lotz (2014). “Heaven: My Father's House”, p.71, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

  Carl L. Becker

  Men, Ironic, Belief

  Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)

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• Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tasks, Genius, Individual

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• As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Long, Missing

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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