Quotes About Legacy

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!

I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave.

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

It's not what you take, it's what you leave.

I will always be here, in the offering and people I left behind.

So it's good and it's bad and it hurts, but I like thinking about him. If I think about him, he won't be completely gone either. Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.

Denn es geht nicht um das, was man mitnimmt, sondern um das, was man zurücklässt. (Violet)

Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London...Write a book...Feel good about myself...Live...Play guitar like Jimmy Page. Come up with a song that will change the world. Find the Great Manifesto. Count for something. Be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough...Matter...Stop being afraid. Stop thinking too much. Fill the holes left behind. Drive...Write. Breathe...Before I die I want to know a perfect day.

Before I die I want to count for something. Be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough. Know what it's like to have a best friend. Matter.

Lucrul de care mi-am dat seama este ca nu conteaza ce iei, ci ce lasi.

I was here. T.F I was here too. V.M

Non importa se non abbiamo mai filmato le nostre peregrinazioni. Non importa se non abbiamo preso dei souvenir o non abbiamo avuto il tempo di organizzare i dati raccolti, in modo che avessero un senso compiuto per gli altri. Il fatto è che ora ho capito: non è importante quello che si prende, ma quello che ci si lascia dietro.

On March 23, 1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: "Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.

Ho vissuto ardentemente. E poi sono morto, ma non del tutto. Perché quelli come me non muoiono come chiunque altro. Persisto, come la leggenda del Blue Hole.

Hanya karena mereka sudah mati, mereka tak perlu mati. Begitu juga kita.

the thing i realize is that it is not what you take, it is what you leave

Thanks most of all to my beautiful mother and fellow author, Penelope Niven, who made the world lovelier just by being in it.