Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. 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 all 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.

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity 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 and 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 of 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.

不管你有沒有準備好，人生總會走到盡頭。再不會有日出，白天或者時間分鐘。所有這些你收集起來的不管珍惜還是已經忘卻都只能留給別人。

你的財富，名譽還有一時的權利都將再不重要。你擁有什么或者你的什么被別人擁有都已不再重要了。

你的怨恨，怨恨，失望，還有忌妒將最終消失。
 
所以，你的希望，理想抱負，宏偉計劃還有要做的事情都將化為烏有。曾經看似很重要的所有的輸贏得失也褪去了它的顏色。
 
你來自哪兒或者住那個角落都不重要。
 
你的美丑或者聰明與否也不再重要。性別，膚色，種族也無關緊要了。
 
那么還有什么是重要的呢？你的人生又有著什么樣的意義？
 
重要的不是你買了什么而是你存了什么；不是你得到的而是你付出的是什么。
 
重要的不是你的成功而是你的重要性。
 
不是你學到了什么而是你教給了別人什么。
 
重要的是你能作為模范豐富，支持和鼓勵別人的楷模的每一個正直的行為，你的熱情，勇氣和犧牲精神。
 
重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。

重要的不是你認識多少人，而是當你離開后有多少人會覺得是個損失。

重要的不是你的回憶，而是你對于那些深愛著你的人的回憶。

重要的是你能因為什么被什么人銘記多久。

有意義的人生絕非偶然得之。

這不是一個問題，而是選擇。

選擇過有意義的人生。