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.

不管你有没有准备好，人生总会走到尽头。再不会有日出，白天或者时间分钟。所有这些你收集起来的不管珍惜还是已经忘却都只能留给别人。

你的财富，名誉还有一时的权利都将再不重要。你拥有什么或者你的什么被别人拥有都已不再重要了。

你的怨恨，怨恨，失望，还有忌妒将最终消失。

所以，你的希望，理想抱负，宏伟计划还有要做的事情都将化为乌有。曾经看似很重要的所有的输赢得失也褪去了它的颜色。

你来自哪儿或者住那个角落都不重要。

你的美丑或者聪明与否也不再重要。性别，肤色，种族也无关紧要了。

那么还有什么是重要的呢？你的人生又有着什么样的意义？

重要的不是你买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。

不是你学到了什么而是你教给了别人什么。

重要的是你能作为模范丰富，支持和鼓励别人的楷模的每一个正直的行为，你的热情，勇气和牺牲精神。

重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。

重要的不是你认识多少人，而是当你离开后有多少人会觉得是个损失。

重要的不是你的回忆，而是你对于那些深爱着你的人的回忆。

重要的是你能因为什么被什么人铭记多久。

有意义的人生绝非偶然得之。

这不是一个问题，而是选择。

选择过有意义的人生。