Yesterday night, my husband and I were thinking about "success", how to describe it, and after talking about ingredients like fulfillment, enjoyment, health, love, responsibility, citizenship and money we found the following and beautiful definition of success, and we agreed with it. And you, how do you measure your success?
"What is success?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by
A healthy child, a garden patch
Or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed
Easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1 year ago
I would like to highlight some lines of this poem: "To leave the world a bit better, whether by / A healthy child, a garden patch / Or a redeemed social condition". Usually people think that the concept of success must be related to money or fame. These lines show us that success could be something different from being rich or famous. In fact, success is something that all people are able to achieve. To do so, one only needs to make "the world a bit better".
ReplyDeleteeu definiria sucesso numa palavra apenas - felicidade =) sendo, também, aquilo que o poema me transmite ;)
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