Erin Morgenstern Quotes

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Everything is a reaction.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Everyone lives downstream from someone else.

The world is interconnected and causations run in many directions at once.

Everything you touch touches you.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Everything...affects everything

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

The decisions I make with my career is not just about me. It doesn't affect just me.

You don't want to put somebody in a bad spot because you'll put everybody in a bad spot.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.