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  • #1
    Ray Bradbury
    “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

    It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #2
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
    Shannon Alder

  • #3
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “... so this is for us.
    This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
    and this is for doing it even if no one will ever know
    because the beauty is in the act of doing it.
    Not what it can lead to.
    This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playing
    and no one is around and they will never know
    but I will forever remember
    and that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have,
    and this is for you who write or play or read or sing
    by yourself with the light off and door closed
    when the world is asleep and the stars are aligned
    and maybe no one will ever hear it
    or read your words
    or know your thoughts
    but it doesn’t make it less glorious.
    It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.
    Infinite.
    For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe in
    and only you can decide how much it meant
    and means
    and will forever mean
    and other people will experience it too
    through you.
    Through your spirit. Through the way you talk.
    Through the way you walk and love and laugh and care
    and I never meant to write this long
    but what I want to say is:
    Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourself
    and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.
    Let your very identity be your book.
    Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

    So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountain
    where no one will ever hear
    and your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar.
    Make your life be your art
    and you will never be forgotten.”
    Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

  • #4
    Idowu Koyenikan
    “Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.”
    Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #6
    Shannon L. Alder
    “I write to find strength.
    I write to become the person that hides inside me.
    I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
    I write to be seen and heard.
    I write to be near those I love.
    I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
    I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
    I write past the embarrassment of exposure.
    I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal.
    I write myself out of nightmares.
    I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
    I write to remember.
    I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
    I write because speaking can’t be reread.
    I write to sooth a mind that races.
    I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
    I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
    I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.
    I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
    I write to provide a legacy.
    I write to make sense out of senselessness.
    I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding.
    I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.
    I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time.
    I write because God loves stories.
    I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #7
    Idowu Koyenikan
    “Even though our time in this life is temporary, if we live well enough, our legacy will last forever.”
    idowu koyenikan, All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success in Life and Business

  • #8
    Ray Bradbury
    “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #9
    Emem Uko
    “It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.”
    Emem Uko

  • #10
    Huseyn Raza
    “Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

    [An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]”
    Huseyn Raza

  • #11
    “Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.”
    Christopher Pike, The Return

  • #12
    “But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn’t let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it’s born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.”
    Christopher Pike, Remember Me

  • #13
    P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
    “If you cannot realize what I have given you, you will always remember what you had given me”
    P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

  • #14
    Sara Sheridan
    “To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.”
    Sara Sheridan

  • #15
    Hermann Hesse
    “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.

    Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

    A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

    A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

    When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

    A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

    So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”
    Herman Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

  • #16
    Robin Hobb
    “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
    Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

  • #17
    Pascal Mercier
    “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
    Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

  • #18
    Mohsin Hamid
    “If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”
    Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  • #19
    Mohsin Hamid
    “To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
    Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
    tags: love

  • #20
    Mohsin Hamid
    “Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”
    Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  • #21
    Mohsin Hamid
    “But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”
    Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

  • #22
    “Even at the very end of life, healing a relationship can transform the history of a family. A relationship that is complete need not end; in this context, complete means there is nothing left unsaid or undone. When a dying person and a loved one come to feel complete between themselves, time together tends to be as full of joy and loving affection as sadness.”
    Ira Byock, Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life

  • #23
    Debasish Mridha
    “Death is not the end of life but the end of suffering and the beginning of an endless eternal life.”
    Debasish Mridha

  • #24
    Margareta Magnusson
    “If your parents are getting old and you don't know how to bring up the topic of what to do with all the stuff, I would suggest you pay them a visit, sit down, and ask some of the following questions in a gentle way:

    "You have many nice things, have you thought about what you want to do with it all later on?"
    "Do you enjoy having all this stuff?"
    "Could life be easier and less tiring if we got rid of some of this stuff that you have collected over the years?"
    "Is there anything we can do together in a slow way so that there won't be too many things to handle later?”
    Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you...Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed...Ah! realise your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar...Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing...The world belongs to you for a season...how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will last. The common hillflowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty, becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to...Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”
    Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

  • #27
    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world”
    Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
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  • #28
    Dennis Prager
    “Fear of God is a liberating emotion, freeing one from a disabling fear of evil, powerful people. This needs to be emphasized because many people see fear of God as onerous rather than liberating.”
    Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Exodus

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The infinite green Garden of Love
    has many fruits beyond joy and sorrow.
    Love is forever green without spring
    without autumn.”
    Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Someone said to Shams-i-Tabriz, "I have established the existence of God by a categorical proof." The following morning our Master, Shams, said, "Last night the angels came down and blessed that man, saying, 'Praise be to God, he has established the existence of our God! God give him long life! He has done no harm to the honor of men and women!'"
    Oh poet, God exists. It needs no proof. If you do anything at all, establish yourself in some rank and station before Him. Otherwise, how can you share in His grace?”
    Rumi, It Is What It Is: The Personal Discourses of Rumi



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