True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
Interpretation
True wealth is defined by the impact we have on others rather than material possessions.
This quote by Cesar Chavez emphasizes that real prosperity comes from the positive influence we have on people and the memories we create with them. Rather than focusing on accumulating wealth in terms of money and power, we should measure our success by the lasting legacy we leave for our loved ones and those we inspire throughout our lives.
In practice
This quote can be used in a graduation speech to inspire students to focus on their contributions to society.
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.
In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
We have too often been expected to speak _x000D_ all things to all people and speak everyone else's position _x000D_ but our own.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.
If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.
Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
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