You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Topic: Action, Self, Success
- Location: California, San Diego
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
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