Our “life push” and evolution
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute ... that gives meaning to our lives.
No seed ever sees the flower.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.
Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone.
It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.
Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
We're all here to live a fabulous life... a life of love, truth, and joy.We have the power to wake up to that. We have the power to say "I'm not just here to survive, I'm here to live the greatest life that can be lived".
What is to give light must endure burning.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.
Gifted people cannot escape a sense of calling, a mandate to put their abilities to the test of time and constructive purpose. This is the true legacy of giftedness, the sense of responsibility to leave something valuable behind.
Those who have come to be, those who will be: All will go, leaving the body behind. The skillful person, realizing the loss of all, should live the holy life ardently.
When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
I’m going to die tonight. What would be the best thing to do with the rest of my time?
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard. In the graveyard are buried all of the unwritten novels, never-launched businesses, unreconciled relationships, and all of the other things that people thought, ‘I’ll get around to that tomorrow.’ One day, however, their tomorrows ran.
And when you are dying, you may have a chance to reflect on your life and the legacy you are leaving behind. You created that legacy during the past day. You are creating that legacy at this very moment. What will you leave behind? What will you create that will outlive you? How many hearts and minds will be touched by your deeds? Use your precious moments wisely. Do what you came here to do. “To.”
If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.
We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Fatigue, paradoxically, is almost always a result of living a life of too little action.
True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It’s an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there’s something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.
From the point of view of the imminence of death, one thing counts, and one alone: to strive always to have the essential rules of life present in one’s mind, and to keep placing oneself in the fundamental disposition of the philosopher, which consists essentially in controlling one’s inner discourse, in doing only that which is of benefit to the human community, and in accepting the events brought to us by the course of the Nature of the All.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
Life is long if you know how to use it.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Don’t go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty.
Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.
Somebody should tell us... right at the start of our lives... that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.
He tells his friend, the noble wizard Gandalf, “I wish none of this had happened.” Gandalf’s reply is one of the greatest in all of literature. He says, “So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.
The aware do not die;
The unaware are as though dead already.
When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.
Thus, from cradle to grave, having control over one’s life matters.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of its students.