Affected Quote by John C. Maxwell

Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin…

— Sam Hamill

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering…

— Laura Hillenbrand

After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and I asked…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices…

— Clemantine Wamariya

I was definitely seriously affected [with wifw and daughter deaths], no question, but I learnt to devote myself to the things that we'd been…

— Edmund Hillary

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar,…

— Anthony Bourdain

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised…

— Dorothy Allison

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

— Joshua Slocum

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people…

— Joe Dunthorne

The most influential people in my life are deceased. These include my parents, George Dunne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my minister in…

— Jesse White

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

— Barbara Mikulski

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way…

— Assata Shakur