David Levithan Quotes

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.

If you are somebody to anybody, you're somebody.

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

Progress means nothing to presence.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

To be here is immense.