Quotes About Impact

I realise, two decades after the events of this book, that deep inside it was not dying that truly rattled Morrie. it was being forgotten.

but her absence was like a character in it.

Although the TV and radio work were nice supplements, the newspaper had been my lifeline, my oxygen; when I saw my stories in print each morning, I knew that, in at least one way, I was alive. I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. I was stunned at how easily things went on without me.

he didn't want to disrupt the boy's life any more than he already had.

And on this early page of man's story, one different child can change the world.

With the chance to do what none in life ever get to do, he did not waver. He changed the history of his footsteps.

Parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorb the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

What we carry defines who we are. And the effort we make is our legacy.

And one day spent with someone you love can change everything.

the same things in life can be good or evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them. Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal or kill. Even nature can work for you or against you: fire can warm or burn; water can sustain life or flood it away.

to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

the power of language

And one day spent with someone you love can change everything. I

That death doesn't just take someone, it mosses someone else, and in that small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

You did this, too? he finally said. You met five people? She nodded. A different five people, he said. She nodded again. And they explained everything? And it made a difference? She smiled. All the difference. She touched his chin. And then I waited for you.

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.

A revolver is) just a tool, really, like stapler. A stapler that punch through a person. Pin them. Drive blunt metal through flesh and bone.

People don't believe in consequences anymore.

The biggest lesson is you get the country you work for. If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you want. You have to be active.

But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin. I

phones themselves have the innate power of distancing one from one's physical surroundings, which accounted for part of it