To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
Interpretation
A single person's significance can outweigh their relation to the larger world.
This quote by Pablo Casals emphasizes the profound impact that one individual can have on another's life. While one may feel insignificant in the grand scheme of things, to someone who truly cares, that person can represent everything and hold immense value.
In practice
During a wedding speech, to highlight the importance of love between partners.
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!
Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
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