Allison Pearson Quotes

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories.