Quotes About Impact

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Many people strive to make their piece significant in this puzzle of life.

At the end of our lives we will have nothing to take with us, but those who love us will be able to remember us and our legacy by remembering how much of a blessing that we were to them in our lifetime.

Life is better when you are happy but life is at its best when people are happy because of you. Be inspired, give love and share your smile with everyone.

Las voces de los muertos tienen el poder de enloquecer a los vivos.

would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.

There are too many of them. It's simpler if they just remember me.

When we opened the front door, we found Elpenor sprawled upon the flagstones. He had fallen from my roof at last. We gazed down at his bluing lips, the ugly angle of his neck.

There are too many of them,' he said. 'It's simpler if they just remember me.

La fama sigue cursos extraños: la de unos aumenta al morir y la de otros se desvanece. —El itacense abre las manazas—. Es imposible decir quién va a sobrevivir al holocausto de la memoria.

His head thudded dully against stone, and I saw the surprised pop of his eyes. The ground around him began to bleed.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

It was true what they had been saying: if people remember you, then you're not dead. It was very comforting.

It's what people do is important, not what they say or feel.

The past is never really gone. It's always with us, shaping who we are.

A terminal illness doesn't belong only to the one who is sick—it affects family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers. Not unlike a still pond disturbed by a falling stone, an impending death sends ripples through all the relationships in the life of the dying. Each person involved has his or her own set of issues, fears, and questions.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

For Jane Austen, morality is not only a matter of personal responsibility between an individual and his conscience or his Maker; it is more social than that, it is a matter of how the conduct impinges on the lives of other people.

While the two words often arrive sutured together, I think it worthwhile to breathe some space between them, so that one might see "brutal honesty" not as a more forceful version of honesty itself, but as one possible use of honesty. One that doesn't necessarily lay truth barer by dint of force, but that actually overlays something on top of it—something that can get in its way. That something is cruelty.

My relatives all say Jane wanted to change the world Then they add None of us can

If a color could deliver hope, does it follow that it could also bring despair?

If you're looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations...then your sexuality will form around that fact.

Skin is soft; it takes what you do to it.

I can go for days without thinking about it; at other times it feels like a defining moment. It means nothing. It means everything.