Quotes About Impact

Sometimes it seems remarkable how certain moments of our lives stand out from all the others with striking clarity, and are burned into our memories forever.

For most people, most of the time, the media are little more than a background hum. . .

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

It was her way of saying, "You should kill yourself.

If I could speak, I'd tell her, "What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.

Lo que puede pasar en unos pocos minutos puede cambiarte para siempre.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

all we have is people, people with their messy indefinites, their changes and inconsistencies, their desires and fears, their acts that echo down the years and change the world.

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

Could it be possible that having cancer has turned you into an even bigger perv? Yes. It's a common side effect.

Concering the power of the written word

But if they've helped form you into who you are, then they never really leave you; they're always with you in whatever you do, and maybe that's the point.

Rescuers don't have capes and wrist web-shooters and X-ray vision, but there is a superpower that comes from knowing you're making a difference in the world around you. And like the ability to walk on a leash, it makes anything feel possible.

There's nothing complicated or expensive about living purposefully and meaningfully. And we don't have to travel to some exotic place to "find ourselves," or to make a difference. The most effective practices that afford us the most happiness and meaning are done within the context of our daily lives. This is the premise of all my work – bringing our ideas and practices into our daily life. The place we make a real difference is within our own personal lives.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

Silence can bring with it a vacancy that in its turn craves the distraction of the human voice or the obscuring impact created...by music. These distractions can help to stifle the terror of being abandoned to the silence of the noisy mind.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto.

Por lo que me toca, me pregunto si alguna vez conseguiré hacer sentir que el verdadero y único personaje que me interesa es el lector, en la medida en que algo de lo que escribo debería contribuir a mutarlo, a desplazarlo, a extrañarlo, a enajenarlo.

Es culpa mía si las cosas me hieren con más fuerza que a otros

Por eso se fija tanto en el recuerdo, por eso se pueden contar tan bien las catástrofes.

Es terrible que un hombre sin grandeza alguna se tire de esa manera contra la pared. Nos denuncia a todos con el choque de sus huesos, nos hace trizas con la primera frase de su música.

Es mi culpa mÍa si las cosas me hieren con más fuerza que a otros

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.