Dalai Lama Quotes

Everything we do affects other people.

Every person's every action has an effect.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

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.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

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

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

Things always happen in series.

Everything is a reaction.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

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

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.