Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

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.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

'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.

Events, which, considered simply by themselves, seem to be of but little moment, assume a very different aspect when viewed in the light of their causes and consequences. Actions, either of individuals or of bodies of men, insignificant in their own proper nature, often start up into an unsuspected importance when viewed as indication of the state of heart from which they spring.

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

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. 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 those ripples.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

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

Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

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.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

Little hinges swing big doors.

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

Ideas have consequences.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

One thing can make many other things happen.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.