不管你有沒有準備好，總有一天， 生命都會走到盡頭。在那兒，沒有陽光，沒有白天，也沒有時光的流逝。你畢生所追求的一切，不論你有多麽寶貝，不論你有多麽難以忘懷，總要變成別人的。
你的財富、名譽、權力都會付諸東流。你所擁有的或擁有你的人都變得不再重要了。
你的嫉妒、你的怨恨、你的沮喪、你的猜忌，最終將消失無蹤。
同樣地，你的希翼、你的雄心壯誌，你的計劃藍圖，你的備忘錄也終將流逝。那些人世間的贏輸也不再那麽重要，一點點地褪去。
你來自何方，你家居何處，變得一點兒也不重要。
你的美麗、你的聰明，你的性格、膚色、種族都變得無關緊要。
那麽，什麽才是重要的呢？你的價值到底在何處？
重要的東西不是你所買來的，而是你努力創造的；重要的東西不是你所得到的，而是你所付出的。
重要的不是你的成功，而是你的價值。
重要的不是你所學到的，而是你所教給他人的。
重要的是你那些正直而富有同情心、勇敢而富有於犧牲精神的舉動，激勵、鼓舞了一批人以你為楷模。
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，而是有多少人會為你的離去而感到惋惜遺憾。
重要的不是你的記憶，而是你記憶中那些愛你的人。
重要的是你會被誰，為什麽而記住多久。
人重於泰山，並不是而然而成。這不是外因，而是內在的抉擇所致。
選擇一個有價值的人生吧！
What Will Matter?
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 irrelevant. 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 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.
