The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast you.

— Unknown Source

If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders.

— Unknown Source

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. Similarly, there are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living.

— Unknown Source

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Unknown Source

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles, Greek statesman and orator, 495-429 BCE

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles, Greek statesman and orator, 495-429 BCE

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. Similarly, there are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living.

— Hannah Szenes, Hungarian poet and paratrooper, one of 37 Jewish parachutists to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews, 1921-1944

Be ashamed to die until you’ve scored some victory for humanity.

— Horace Mann, U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD

Our life is made by the death of others.

— Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519
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