Quotes About Ripple

Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.

the incessant seethe of grasses

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

Imagine what our real neighbors would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person. There have been so many stories about the lack of courtesy, the impatience of today's world, road rage and even restaurant rage. Sometimes, all it takes is one kind word to nourish another person. Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a litter better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.

Just like a wave that ripples across the water, we change ourselves, and everything else changes.

The time of human domination on Earth is barely a drop in the ocean of geological time, and it takes a lot to make a ripple in that ocean.

Happiness is like a ripple. If you're the origin, you will get happiness back with same frequency.

Of small events are great catastrophes constructed.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence.

no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

I mean, doesn't it change history even if you just tread on an ant?' 'For the ant, certainly,' said Qu.

But, then again, the actions of the most insignificant men or women can be as a single raindrop that rolls a pebble that dislodges a clod that tumbles a rock and, before you know it, the whole mountainside has crashed down, sweeping palaces and pigsties, princes and paupers into the sea. So maybe there are demons at work, even in the smallest mischief

Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

When a rock or a tree branch is placed in a river, the water's flow is altered a little. Have you not seen this? Our dances are pebbles and twigs, we make a little ripple in the great stream, that is all. Nothing leaves the river. This is how healing is accomplished.

We can never do merely one thing.

When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things.

When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things. And that's not all.

Everything that has happened took place because you arrived. If you had not come here, the warrior might still be alive and the horse might not have been sick. A man has been killed, and a horse healed, for your benefit.

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.