
“You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For?
Attributed to Slick in Bangkok Babylon (2006) by Jerry Hopkins, p. 217, and elsewhere, this was also attributed to Paul Kantner in The New Yorker, Vol. 67 (1991), Dennis Hopper in Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion (1992), and in various books to numerous others, including Judy Collins, George Harrison, and comedian Robin Williams.
Disputed
“You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For?
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
No known source in Emerson's works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:
: Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
:* Junius, "Office Cat" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85995624/, The Daily Freeman [Kingston, NY] (30 December 1936), p. 6
Misattributed
“You weren't world class when Arsenal signed you.”
Patrick Vieira, (2004) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/169064/Its-time-to-buy-top-stars.html
Arsenal (1996–present)
“Hey, you never told me that you weren't feelin' alright”
Never Told Me (2018)