Quotes About Impact

He who has done his best for his own time, has lived for all times. (Igbo proverb)

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

Greater stories will have their way.

Words have longer lives than people.

It's not every day one has a first kiss,' I said. 'May I remind you that it wasn't your first kiss?' 'It felt like it was. It was the first one that mattered.

Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.

I finally understood that history wasn't just written on walls and in books but made in a thousand daily decisions, and some of them went wrong, some went right, and some decisions just had to be made because time was running out. Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

Sometimes the smallest animal inflicts the greatest pain.

I closed my eyes against the thought, knowing that soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and after of my life, and it would happen in one swift act that I could no more alter than the color of my eyes.

Maybe I finally understood that history wasn't just written on walls and in books but made in a thousand daily decisions, and some of them went wrong, some went right, and some decisions just had to be made because time was running out. Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

When people rally together to support a good cause, it shouts a second message to the community at large, that people can work unselfishly together if our eyes are on God and on those in need, rather than on our own advancement.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

John Bowlby (1973) reported on a landmark study of the adoption of securely attached toddlers that demonstrated that transitional objects had a major impact on reducing placement trauma. In this study, many of the toddlers' belongings, including beds, blankets, and toys, accompanied them to their new homes.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

Niggas are in paris

Aristophanes said that boys throw stones at frogs in jest, but the frogs, they die in earnest. You're going to break my life into splinters, then move on without a second thought. Yes, my lord, you terrify me.

If he chose, he could help this girl, but what was the point of saving one little whore? It would make no difference to that vast, endless, tragic horde of broken children. But as Jenny stared at him with great stark eyes, he knew that it would make a difference to her.

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.