“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
- Elisabeth-Anne “Bessie” Anderson Stanley
often missattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Robert Louis Stevenson
“It’s not what you have at the end of life, it’s what you leave behind that matters.”
- Stedman Graham
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach
“We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.”
- Stedman Graham
in Build Your Own Life Brand
“Life means to have something definite to do—a mission to fulfill—and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.”
—Jose Ortega y Gasset, philosopher
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
- Lao Tzu
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
—Beryl Markham
“To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?”
- Katharine Graham
