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!
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
We, unaccustomed to courage_x000D_ _x000D_ exiles from delight_x000D_ _x000D_ live coiled in shells of loneliness_x000D_ _x000D_ until love leaves its high holy temple_x000D_ _x000D_ and comes into our sight_x000D_ _x000D_ to liberate us into life.
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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