Shell Vs Oyster

The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.

~Andrew Carnegie~

Live a Life That Matter

Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire.

The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived, at the end.

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant

Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built;

not what you got, but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence, but your character.

What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.

It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

Choose to live a life that matters.

~Unknown~

The Best Leader

Avena Fatua Wild Oat

Go to the people। Learn from them. Live with them

Start with what they know. Build with what they have.

The best of leaders when the job is done,

when the task is accomplished,

the people will say we have done it ourselves

~ Lao Tze

Friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

~Samuel Butler

The Orange Plants

Plum wild flower

Our ideas, like orange-plants,

spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

~Edward Bulwer Lytton

Creativity vs Happiness

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

~ Albert Einstein

Life's Library

Life is like a library owned by the author.

In it are a few books which he wrote himself,

but most of them were written for him.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Charm

Wild Flower Collection: Senduduk

A stranger loses half his charm the day he is no longer a stranger.

~ Genevieve a. Dariaux

The Best of Now & Here

No longer forward nor behind, I look in hope and fear;

But grateful take the good I find,The best of now and here.

~John G. Whittier

Colors

Mountain Blue Bird

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

~ Marc Chagall