Live a life that matters.
Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end. There will be no sunrises, no minutes, hours or day. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentment, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear. So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do list will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you come from or what side of the tracks you lived, at the end. It won’t matter whether you were beautiful, brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant. So what will matter ? How will the values of your days be measured ? What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built, not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance. What will matter is not what you learnt, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered, encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you know, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’ve gone.
What will matter are not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn’t by accident……it is not a matter of circumstances but of choice. While you meet something beautiful, the first thing you should do is to share it with your friends anywhere, so that these beautiful things will be able to spread out literally around the world
Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end. There will be no sunrises, no minutes, hours or day. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentment, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear. So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do list will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you come from or what side of the tracks you lived, at the end. It won’t matter whether you were beautiful, brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant. So what will matter ? How will the values of your days be measured ? What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built, not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance. What will matter is not what you learnt, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered, encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you know, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’ve gone.
What will matter are not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn’t by accident……it is not a matter of circumstances but of choice. While you meet something beautiful, the first thing you should do is to share it with your friends anywhere, so that these beautiful things will be able to spread out literally around the world
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