The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“When she shut her eyes, her mind grew alert. Her senses opened. All around her, she felt how quickly things formed and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Each person must develop a wholesome personal response to enduring the hardships of daily life and witnessing the discord, disharmony, dissension, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment -… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. — Joseph Bayly Copy Share Image
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
