Quotes About Impact

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Most people, when their culture began to run wood through sawmills and build homes out of the dimensional lumber that results, would not have thought to ask what, in our human experience and capability, might be affected by this.

What, then, might deodorants and perfumes have done to our ability to smell the signals emitted by our bodies? What might lives filled with clocks have done to our sense of time? What have airplanes done to our sense of space, or the internet to our sense of competence? What have maps done to our sense of direction, or schools to our sense of family? You get the point.

We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more. many of these changes have come so fast and furious that we should not be surprised when they create damage that is difficult to undo.

modernity is doing something to us at a deeply fundamental level, and the fact that we don't understand it is alarming.

Be the difference in someone's life that you know you can make.

living or dead, it's always people that haunt the living!" Mae said

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

We are called to plant these seeds in our world: to dare to tell every living soul that they already matter, that their seemingly mundane lives are a slowly unfolding mystery, that their small choices and acts of generosity are vitally important.

The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.

Every word you speak is a love that reverberates my soul.

Love is when repetition stops you in your tracks.

These choices we make, they seem so small-- they're made in a split second and yet they can have a ripple effect for years.

Distant shareholders have no understanding of the damage caused by their investments.

Happiness is about doing something good in this world," She says finally. "It comes to finding what you we're meant to do, and doing it.

The Ashawala'i call that feeling 'being struck by lightning.

Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious--is a genius or a hero.

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

Who forces himself on others, is to himself a load.

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

Too young to bring about change, we brought about disturbance.

If you don't hear this kind of music [pop] at the right time, can it ever make sense to you?

I got to know [teen music] as we absorb music in passing but can remember only its seriousness and weight.

War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.