We are here not to get all we can out of life for ourselves, but to try and make the lives of others happier. ~ William Osler
Category: Priorities
On Priorities: One Day You Will Wake Up and Realize This
One day you will wake up and realize that the small things in your life - like building warm, trusting relationships - were really the big things. ~ Lee Cockerell, Former VP of Service at Disney
On Priorities: How to Change the World
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
On Living with Purpose: Be Bold and Courageous
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
On Individual Purpose: When the World Cries
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. ~ Old Indian Proverb
On Priorities: Your Best Behavior
Remember that no one deserves your best behavior more than your family.
Winston Churchill on Making the World a Better Place
What is the use in living if not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after you are gone? ~ Winston Churchill
A Meaningful Life
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ~ Oswald Spengler
On Priorities: When You Only Have Five Minutes Left
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ~ Christopher Morley
Einstein On Priorities
Having been trained as an accountant, this quote really resonates with me: "Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count." ~ Albert Einstein
