What will matter?
什么才重要？
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
無論是否準備好，總有一天它都會走到盡頭。 那里沒有日出，沒有白天，沒有小時和分鐘。 你收集的所有東西，不管你珍惜或忘記與否，它們都將流入他人手中。
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
不管是你得到的或是你欠別人的，可你的財產、名譽和權勢也都會變成和你毫不相干的東西。
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
你的怨恨、憤慨、挫折和妒忌最終也將消失。
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
因此，你的希望、抱負、計劃以及行動日程表也將全部結束。 當初看得比較重的成功得失也會消失。
It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.
你來自何方，住在窮人區還是富人區也都不重要了。
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.
你昔日的漂亮與輝煌也都不重要了，你的性別、膚色、種族地位也將消失。
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
因此，什么重要呢？ 怎么衡量你有生之年的價值呢？
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.
重要的不是你買了什么，而是你創造了什么； 不是你得到了什么，而是你給予了什么。
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
重要的不是你成功了，而是你生命的意義。
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
重要的不是你學到了什么，而是你傳授了什么。
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
重要的是每個行動之中都有正直和勇氣的氣概，偉大的同情心和犧牲精神，并且鼓勵他人遵從榜樣。
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.
重要的不是你認識多少人，而是在你離開后，別人會認為是個永遠的損失。
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.
重要的不是你想念誰，而是愛你的人想念你。
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
重要的是別人會記你多長時間，誰記著你，為什么記著你。
Living a life that matters doesn’ t happen by accident.
過一種有意義的生活不是一件偶然的事情。
It s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
那不是環境的問題，而是選擇的問題。
Choose to live a life that matters.
選擇有意義的人生吧！