When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Contribution gives life purpose and vitality. Stopping contribution leads to stagnation.
- In plain terms
- Keeping giving to the world to stay alive and vital.
- What can you take from it?
- Contribution is essential to a meaningful life.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What contribution gives you energy?
- How do you measure your value to others?
Another view
Some people may need rest without feeling they are dying.
More from Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Permalink to quote #7 I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Permalink to quote #9 Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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