For each of us eventually, whether we are ready or not, some day it will come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no more minutes, hours, or days.
All the things you collected, weather 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 owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, plans, ambitions and "to do list" will expire.
The wins and losses that used to seem so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived at in the end.
It won't matter if you are beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So.... what will matter?
How will the value 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 learned but what you taught.
What will matter is
every act of integrity, compassion, courage, and sacrifice that enriched or empowered and 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 knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter is
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.
A life lived that matters is not of circumstance,
but of choice.
This is my Favorite Quote from an enlightening documentary about Curing Cancer called "Dying to Have Known"
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