Quotes About Impact

Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.

If some things aren't said before a boy leaves home, it's probably too late.

It comes without concern for my neurotic need for acceptance. After all, I wasn't even aware it was happening. It has a life of its own. And it moves me deeply that, even inadvertently, I've participated in making someone's life a little bit better.

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

there's no such thing as being apolitical. If we sit back and do nothing, leaving all the policy making to others, that is, in fact, a position of support for the status quo, which is a very political stance to take.

I guess when you're not awake, you're not awake. Waking up to the suffering of people who are different from us is a long process, and has a whole lot to do with what community we belong to and whose consciousness and life experiences impact our own on a daily basis. I have a hunch I'm going to be waking up until the moment I die.

i feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers. all the best of me belong to her, there is not a talent or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not awakened by her loving touch.... about her teacher: ann sulivan.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.

Esu sur?k?s tiek daug cigare?i?, kad suguldžius ? linij? j? užtekt? nuo Stokholmo centro iki Siodertelj?s. Maždaug nuo Butšiurkos cigaret?s jau su filtru, bet nuo to ne k? geriau.

The worker is a member of his community but the forces driving and changing society are wielded by others

History isn't just something that's behind us, it's also something that follows us.

Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world?

If that is true, then the real question for me as I consider my own death is not: how much can I still accomplish before I die, or will I be a burden to others? No, the real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

When one thinks what one leaves in the world when one dies, Only silence is strong, - all the rest is but lies.

The profoundest lessons are not the lessons of reason; they are sudden strains that permanently warp the mind.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Be not simply good; be good for something.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts.