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Quotes About Legacy

When the bones are all gone who lives in the final dust? Cuando ya se fueron los huesos quien vive en el polvo final?
~ Pablo Neruda
a los bárbaros se les caían de las botas, de las barbas, de los yelmos, de las herraduras, como piedrecitas, las palabras luminosas que se quedaron aquí resplandecientes... el idioma. Salimos perdiendo... Salimos ganando... Se llevaron el oro y nos dejaron el oro... Se lo llevaron todo y nos dejaron todo... Nos dejaron las palabras.
~ Pablo Neruda
He vivido tanto que un día tendrán que olvidarme por fuerza.
~ Pablo Neruda
But you will fall with me like a rock into the grave: thanks to our love, which will never waste away, the earth will continue to live.
~ Pablo Neruda
Nació un hombre entre muchos que nacieron, viví entre muchos hombres que vivieron, y esto no tiene historia sino tierra.
~ Pablo Neruda
A victory for us alone would be petty. She is the final flower of those who have fallen.
~ Pablo Neruda
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
~ Pablo Picasso
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~ Pablo Picasso
Cansei de ser moderno. quero ser eterno.
~ Pablo Picasso
My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
~ Pablo Picasso
Un hombre grande y terrible concibió la colosal tentativa de la alianza entre las Repúblicas recién nacidas, y era el único capaz de encaminarla a su arduo fin. Monteagudo fue ese hombre. Muerto él, la idea de la Confederación Americana que había brotado en su poderoso cerebro se desvirtuó por sí sola".
~ Pacho O'Donnell
Most people's lives go unrecorded, or worse unlived.
~ Pamela Anderson
Friday, July 7, 1865 It is time then to write the last words that I shall ever write and close the book. I was born to die, as are we all. The end is there, held within the beginning.
~ Pamela Redford Russell
C?ci bun?tatea unui singur om este cu mult mai puternic? decât r?utatea miilor de oameni. R?ul piere în aceeaÅŸi clip? cu moartea celui care l-a s?vârÅŸit, binele continu? s?-ÅŸi reverse str?lucirea ÅŸi dup? dispariÅ£ia celui drept.
~ Panaït Istrati
Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.
~ Paolo Coelho
The life and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda are described in his Autobiography of a Yogi. An award-winning documentary film about his life and work, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, was released in October 2014.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Because it is a formal order, with an unbroken line of saintly representatives serving as active leaders, no man can give himself the title of swami. He rightfully receives it only from another swami; all monks thus trace their spiritual lineage to one common guru, Lord Shankara. By vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to the spiritual teacher, many Catholic Christian monastic orders resemble the Order of Swamis.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Had India no other gift for the world, Kriya Yoga alone would suffice as a kingly offering.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles.
~ Pat Barker
Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.
~ Pat Barker
A hundred years from now they'll still be ploughing up skulls. And I seemed to be in that time and looking back. I think I saw our ghosts.
~ Pat Barker
you should go tho the past, looking not for messages or warnings, but simply to be humbled by the weight of human experience that has preceded the brief flicker of your own few days.
~ Pat Barker
Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles.
~ Pat Barker
I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
~ Pat Conroy