Quotes About Legacy

To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Once someone asked me, What do you want to be your epitaph? So I said, Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

everything you do in life will leave a mark

In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.

Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago

There is no such thing as death. Life existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we leave this world. Same with love, it existed before and will go on forever.

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Then you'll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That's a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even knew what their Personal Legends were.

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquility, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight - disappointment and defeat - become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful.

People live to save themselves. You will understand that at the moment of your own death.

Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.

We weren't looking for perfection. We were looking for the possibility of perfection, and that possibility is always most beautifully present in the faces of our children and then, if we are very lucky, in the faces of our grandchildren.

It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land.

For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.

When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes. And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to all of them.

Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body;

The children are waiting for us," she said. Those were her words, but what she really said was that I must live and begin now to live. Death must not interrupt life. There were others waiting for us.

So Wang Lung sat, and so his age came on him day by day and year by year, and he slept fitfully in the sun as his father had done, and he said to himself that his life was done and he was satisfied with it.

but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal

Old One, the tenant said apologetically. It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation after you.

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.