Best 43 quotes in «insignificant quotes» category

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

No living thing is insignificant.

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

Don't let minor issues fester beyond their true value, either take action or shift pesky issues to the dustbin of the insignificant.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant.

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries.

Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could they believe anything they did would matter?

Giving an insignificant thing your attention is a form of self-disrespect.

Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

I feel I'm living in parentheses

If I hate a person, then I must still love him as well.. For the insignificant ones, I don't hate.. I just lose interest and become indifferent..

Experiencing nothingness had left her feeling unexpectedly full.

Men Hammerøe ligger der inde med Land, Beskicket for en residerende Mand, Som Tienesten bør at forrette; Indbyggerne have der ligedan Kaar, Som andre der pløyer og høster og slaar, Thi kand jeg ey videre sette.

I prefer feeling insignificant," said Jess. "I don't believe that." "I didn't say worthless, I said insignificant, as in the grand scheme of things." "But why?" "Because humans have such a complex. We're so self-involved. You have to get out to a place like this to remember how small humanity really is." And Jess was right. Numbers didn't matter here. Money didn't count, and all the words and glances, the quick exchanges that built or tore down reputations had no meaning in this place. The air was moist. Fallen leaves, spreading branches, and crisscrossing roots wicked water, so that the trees seemed to drink the misty air. Jess said, "All your worries fade away, because..." Emily finished her thought. "The trees put everything in perspective.

If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief

No one, especially not you, can change an entire universe's purpose at the drop of a dramatic speech. Like the rest... You're just another speck of dust on God's windshield.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.

Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )

The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

We often see ourselves as small, insignificant citizens, but God sees in us as His messengers

Your calling may seem insignificant to you, but to God it is very significant

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

We are paint streaked runners, deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you. Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a very small clam in a very big ocean.