When you view your time as finite, you build more life into each day.

Tell someone how they have contributed to your life . . . while they are still around to hear it.

review of eighteen studies suggests that the prospect of death leads to greater appreciation of life, more rapid formulation of values, more thought about the meaning of life, and stronger social connections. As I have learned from experience, when you consider how short life can be, you create more meaning in the world.

Your greatest contributions are what you put into your closest relationships.

When you see a rare opportunity, take it. Life is too brief for living with regrets.

Your life has an unknown expiration date. Your efforts and contributions to others do not. The time, energy, and resources you invest in people you care for and your community keep growing forever.

We are, to a large degree, the product of what others have contributed to our lives.

I have found that time is more valuable when you can see your mortality on the horizon.

he kept it simple and described how every exchange with another person either “filled their bucket or dipped from it.” He also taught me the best way to fill my own bucket was to spend time filling other people’s.