Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.
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Related By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte... DAISY GOODWIN The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others. SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex... UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world. PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund MARLEN HAUSHOFER If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... HUBERT SELBY JR. This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the... E.M. FORSTER Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket? T.C. BOYLE I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it. ERICA COOK Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis... GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ... GARY F EVANS... Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE People who make great impact are well remembered due to the empty seats that remain after their deat... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. JOHN GREEN The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,... C. JOYBELL C. Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Differenc... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the... JOE HILL It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change. DEYTH BANGER Did you see more glass? J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ... J.D. SALINGER The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ... JOAQUIN MILLER You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru... MATHIAS MALZIEU It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana... LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,... PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn... CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl... WASHINGTON IRVING I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi... GILDA RADNER I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. MARY OLIVER Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books. ANUJ SOMANY It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ... DEBORAH MEIER Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu... JOHN PIPER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because... EDWARD EVERETT HALE Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th... APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often... MALCOLM COWLEY Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies ne... PATRICK NESS No matter who you are and what you do, you can prove to yourself that you can be anybody you want to... BLABLABLA Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
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