What are you weaving?

Posted: May 19, 2015 in Quotes
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
~ Pericles
Comments
  1. Jodi says:
    May 19, 2015 at 3:51 am

    Beautiful !

  2. The Writer's Village says:
    May 19, 2015 at 6:07 am

    and what our parents, and their parents, and so on back throughout time, have passed on to us, for which I am eternally grateful (though sometimes grateful with clenched teeth).

    BTW – I had to visit a periodontist after having a visit from Pericles.

    Randy

  3. philosophermouseofthehedge says:
    May 19, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Astute quote. We passed an old cemetery on a Mother’s Day hike. Reminded, hurricanes, earthquakes, and time turns monuments into dust, but what lives on in people’s memories – as fragile as human brains are – is still more permanent and important.
    Lovely post

  4. prior says:
    May 19, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    very potent quote there. and I just heard this one on bytes.

    “Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.”

    – Regina Brett

    • sustainabilitea says:
      May 19, 2015 at 4:01 pm

      Ooooo, that’s a good one, too. There are so many good quotes out there and the internet makes it easy to find them (and other bloggers help as well!)

      janet

      • prior says:
        May 19, 2015 at 4:02 pm

        yeah – and when I read your quote today – it shows how less can be more sometimes – the ol’ “brevity mode” has much value sometimes, doesn’t it? Hope you are have a nice month of May so far… ❤

      • sustainabilitea says:
        May 19, 2015 at 4:03 pm

        So far, so good. Hope yours has been the same, but it’s hard to believe the month is half over! Where does the time go?

      • prior says:
        May 19, 2015 at 4:04 pm

        I know, I know – I was just thinking that about this month as well – some fly by and this one is “zooming” for sure.

  5. LDG luciledegodoy says:
    May 19, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    Beautiful!!

  6. Tina Schell says:
    May 19, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    Lovely thought for the day Janet – love it!!

  7. ChristineR says:
    June 9, 2015 at 1:43 am

    Love this quote, Janet. I’ve shared it on Twitter and Google+. Thanks.