Quotes About Impact

When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

First spouses, I have learned, don't ever really go away--even if you aren't speaking to them anymore. They are phantoms who dwell in the corners of our new love stories, never entirely vanishing from sight, materializing in our minds whenever they please, offering up unwelcome comments or bits of painfully accurate criticism.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

The only thing that matters now is what you leave 'em with. If you drop this thing in the middle of the second act, they'll forget that they ever loved you. You've gotta earn it all over again now.

the problem with stage actresses is that once they are gone, they are forgotten. If you never saw her perform onstage, then you would not be able to understand her power and appeal.

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.

It helped that Celia Ray could walk into a joint like nobody I've ever seen. She would throw her resplendence into a room ahead of her, the way a soldier might throw a grenade into a machine gunner's nest, and then she would follow her beauty right on in and assess the carnage.

Her thoughts were a cloud of contagion that did her no good.

Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.

Maybe you remember...what a powerful impact the word fuck used to have in our society--back before everybody and thier children started saying it 10 times a day before breakfast

Those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

What we're doing here tonight doesn't matter a bit in the cruel scheme of the world, but we're doing it anyhow.

Maybe you remember, Angela, what a powerful impact the word "fuck" used to have in our society—back before everybody and their children started saying it ten times a day before breakfast. Indeed, it was once a very potent word.

Making a living is nothing, the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference - with words.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

When you enter a room, all eyes turn to you. You blaze like a torch, lighting the darkest corners, brightening even those who thought they were already well lit. You bring joy and mirth and leave behind a glow that gives hope to those you left. And you, Mr. Makepeace? Are you one of those who thought themselves well lit? I am as dark as a pit. Now he was glad her back was turned. Even your torch will have difficulty lighting my depths.

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.

History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth—really seen it—you can't look away.

In your country you don't care about history, and in my country we cannot recover from it.