Quotes About Impact

There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all.

There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all. I

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

The more negative emotion there is in a story, the heavier and more impenetrable it becomes.

Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet.

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say

Está usted contaminando el mundo o limpiando el desorden? Usted es responsable de su estado interior; nadie más lo es, así como usted también es responsable por el planeta. Lo mismo que ocurre dentro, ocurre fuera: si los seres humanos limpian la contaminación interior, también dejarán de crear contaminación exterior.

Ten years ago, A New Earth was first published. Since that time, the book has been read in forty-four languages by countless people all over the world. The in-depth webinar I did with Oprah Winfrey, during which we explored the main themes of the book, has been watched thirty-five million times. So the question naturally arises: Ten years later—where are we? Is a "new earth

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.

Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.

what you do to add to the human existence—that is what matters

It doesn't matter what sex or sexuality, how you identify or who you fancy - it matters not one whit. What do you do in life? What do you create? What do you add to the human existence - that is what matters.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

I had written short stories that were thought worthy of preservation! Was it the same insignificant I that I had always known? Any one walking along the streets might go into any bookshop, and say: 'Please give me Edith Wharton's book'; and the clerk, without bursting into incredulous laughter, would produce it, and be paid for it, and the purchaser would walk home with it and read it, and talk of it, and pass it on to other people to read!

Do you know — I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I — it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again .

He turned to me, full of a terrifying benevolence.

even his small contribution to the new state of things seemed to count, as each brick counts in a well-built wall.

Her entrances were always triumphs; but they had no sequel. As soon as people began to talk they ceased to see her.

a frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.

Each time you happen to me all over again

As to the right of men to act anywhere according to their pleasure, without any moral tie, no such right exists. Men are never in a state of total independence of each other. It is not the condition of our nature: nor is it conceivable how any man can pursue a considerable course of action without its having some effect upon others; or, of course, without producing some degree of responsibility for his conduct.