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!
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch herβdoubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.
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