Quotes About Legacy

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came before Did not forget you. Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning

Epitafio de Jalaludin Rumi Cuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

Una escuela sufi nace para florecer y desaparecer, no para dejar vestigios de un ritual mecánico o interesantes restos antropológicos.

Nothing is ever lost while even a single person remains to remind us of it.

Por cada Faraón hay un Moisés.

Puede que hayas olvidado el Camino: Mas aquellos que vinieron antes No se olvidaron de ti. Bahaudín Naqshband de Bujará.

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.

Si el padre no puede, el hijo finalizará la tarea.

Saying of the Prophet The Bequest I have nothing to leave you except my family.

Dicho del Profeta El legado No tengo nada que dejarles, excepto mi familia.

Muerte Si es un buen hombre, la muerte será una liberación; Si es uno malo, liberará a otros de él.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Solo lo que da sentido a nuestra muerte, le da sentido a nuestra vida

The Democratic Party is like a mule—without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity.

Among some of the famous men educated by the Jesuits we find Bossuet, Corneille, Molière, Tasso, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire, and Bourdaloue, himself a Jesuit.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

We build museums to house history, but it slips out through the cracks of sash and jamb

Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.

When you honestly face the fact that the time you will have in this body and this lifetime is limited, you begin to ask yourself important questions about how you will use that time. What legacy, what gift do you wish to leave behind for others? How would you like to be remembered after you have left this life?

When we have a clear idea of who we are and why we live, our lives become a journey. A story is created about our lives. And when the end comes, even if the story adds up to only one line, the story reaches a settled conclusion.

he heard the performer who, more than any other, would shape his music. Roy Acuff was twenty years older than Hank, and outlived him by almost forty years.

The irony of Hank Williams' relationship with the Opry is that some Opry stars were on the show for forty, fifty, or even sixty years, but Hank Williams remains the star associated in most people's minds with the Grand Ole Opry, despite the fact that he was on the show for only three years.