“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”
Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
— Pericles
As quoted in Flicker to Flame : Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness (2006) by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, p. 118
This quotation is likely a modern paraphrasing of a longer passage from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, II.43.3.
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