legacy

I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those I love.I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.I write past the embarrassment of exposure.I write because hypocrisy doesn__ need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares.I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.I write to remember.I write knowing conversations don__ always take place.I write because speaking can__ be reread.I write to sooth a mind that races.I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.I write to provide a legacy.I write to make sense out of senselessness.I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories.I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.

The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life.

Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.

Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.

Respond to your ability, play your part and make your mark in history.

... a man could build whatever monuments he wanted in the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, and business, but if they come at the expense of his children, then he has failed. Once the attention fades and the crowds stop cheering his name and his accomplishments are little more than fine print in a history book, the only thing that truly survives him is his child. That is his legacy. That is what defines him. All else is but a footnote.

Secrets upon secrets were weaving into a strange and mysterious fabric that would ultimately clothe his future.

What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies

As the leaves randomly fell, she contemplated how they sacrificially gave up their essence to sustain new life. Or was it the tree__ sacrifice? Each leaf was a part of Gaia__ play. Their final act: to decompose so a new level of soil could be made, an earthen writing tablet for the next layer of history to be recorded. One generation became the groundwork for the next. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Nothing was exempt, not even the leaves.

Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

The kind of legacy you leave will only reflect the kind of life you lived.

A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.If only I could remember ...

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

It__ not about keeping up the population, it__ about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don__ just end.

Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, __hat kind of legacy will you leave?

You don__ have to be dead to leave a legacy.

Leaf felt buried beneath the remains of their prior life, the ashes coating every part of who he thought he was in this community.