Quotes About Impact

se eu gritasse acordaria milhares de seres gritantes que iniciariam pelos telhados um coro de gritos e horror. Se eu gritasse desencadearia a existência - a existência de quê? a existência do mundo. Com reverência eu temia a existência do mundo para mim.

What you will know of me is the shadow of the arrow that has hit its target. I shall only vainly grasp a shadow that takes up no room in space, and what barely matters is the dart. I construct something free of me and of you—this my freedom that leads to death.

It wasn't obvious that repurposing every aspect of the planet for our own benefit wasn't really to our benefit at all.

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

A meaningful life is filled with contributions.

It's amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.

But that's the thing about words. They can't ever really erase other words. They can scribble over them, but they can never make them totally go away." -Autumn

lloro porque el lenguaje —como el camino que uno no elige de antemano— es una zona de riesgo que te puede hacer pasar por donde más duele.

in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the indigenous land base shrank by 600,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of Alaska.10

If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

I often say that if we , as a people, had as much religion in our hearts and souls as we have in our legs and feet, we could change the world. (p.15) It is my opinion that sincerity is not enough for preaching ministry. The minister must be both sincere and intelligent. (p.18)

the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.

White spume flew its ghost against the glass.

It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep of disease laden dust that wipes out whole cities, so is the screaming rocket that arcs and falls then thousand miles away and kills a million people.

The right word at the right time stops wars, cures heartaches, mends bridges, sweeps away barriers. The wrong word is the dropped match that lights a forest fire. 

If in the course of the day you do a good deed for a stranger, that stranger will do a good deed for a stranger who might be you.

Applaud yourself when you do good each day. You don't get rewarded for every single penny that you share for others, but these pennies when collected can weigh more than the actual weight of 2.5 billion people.

Don't forget to put some pressure on addressing the imperative issues that can benefit the world.

Not everyone believes in fame during his/her lifetime. But being a good memory and a good example to everybody is worth more than what fame can offer.

Unfold your inner strength by setting a good example to others. Spread the good works in anyway possible.

People of the world will be thankful for what you have done today. You just did!