“What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.” MenLongDoeDiesCommunityGoneLong Life Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long.” NeedsLongHas BeensYoungDiesLinesSlaveDeterminedMapsArbitraryLong LifePeacemakingDie Young Author:Gavin de Becker
“When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.” MenMayHas BeensTogetherLyingDiesChurchExistenceAliveRightsFiguresHe ManStonesGravesRuinsFallenFancyBuriedSooner Or LaterLong LifeMonumentAfter DeathFootstepsCheatedCongregationLife After DeathInscriptions Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?” PeopleIfsWantLifeYearsLongSelfBodyAgeDiesTenLong LifeMaintenanceAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionHope To Live Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin