Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

Simon Van Booy
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Martin Gardener says that the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children is the history of how you felt. The words that you speak, your internal thoughts, your internal emotions, are their history. It's not something physical like a physical object they can hold in their hand. It's not something physical like a physical object they can pick up and say, "Look what I did." It's the history of how you felt. Your words, your thoughts, your emotions are their history.

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