#legacy

Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace. ↗

— Magnus Flyte

#life #passionate-life #life

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#legacy #people #writing #love

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. Do what you want to do, and with the people you love. Learn to appreciate time and make doing so a habit. And if you want to do nothing, then enjoy doing it well. Why do anything by half? Why live a life diluted? What's the use? ↗

— Carew Papritz

#the-legacy-letters #time #love

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ↗

— Aaliyah

#hard #i #legacy #long #long gone

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it. ↗

— Michael Feinstein

#created #died #extraordinary #fresh #george

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#because #iraqi #iraqi people #legacy #living

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. ↗

— Judy Collins

#been #centuries #come #criminals #demons

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions. ↗

— David Copperfield

#anything #been #before #challenges #done

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#am #father #i #i think #left

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#extend #gives #king #legacy #new