A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. —Charles Hadden Spurgeon

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON

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COMMENTS

Ceasar from NY OCTOBER 14, 2016
True. Help all you can and you will be remember by some of them
Papa Lawrence from Colorado Rocky Mountains OCTOBER 14, 2016
Remembering our walk, not our talk. So true.
Anonymous OCTOBER 14, 2016
This is what we need to live by in order to be remembered. Not a piece of stone with our name on it.
Sylvia from Donna, TX OCTOBER 14, 2016
So true!
Neal from San Diego, CA OCTOBER 14, 2016
This sums up my life philosophy perfectly. I hope more and more people embrace it as we mature as a civilization.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —Mark Twain
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. —Gilda Radner
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. —Steve Maraboli
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? —Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on - or you will be taught how to fly. —Patrick Overton
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. —David Viscott
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal. —Harper Lee
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau
We have enough people who tell it like it is—now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. —Robert Orben
You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty. —Kelli Jae Baeli
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe. —Oprah Winfrey
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. —Chinua Achebe
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. —Elizabeth Edwards
We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. —Sri Swami Satchidananda
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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