When the late Marilyn Monroe passed away the newspapers and magazines had a field day. They pictured her a terribly mixed up, miserable person and indeed she must have been. I found her death a genuine tragedy. I wonder how many people upon hearing of her passing would reflect on the society that produced this beautiful, unfortunate young woman. To millions of women in the world over she had everything – – wealth, beauty, success, and talent. To those laboring day by day in their kitchens and offices it was inconceivable that she could be anything but happy. And yet, like so many successful people, she was miserable; the product of a society that knows the price of everything in the value of nothing. To me it is our shame that we do not begin at the cradle to teach our children that success cannot be equated with money, fame and material things. And yet we continue to accumulate and to worship the very materialism that is destroying us. I think it would be an excellent idea if with each birth certificate issued we gave a small wall plaque inscribed with these words by one of the great geniuses of our age, Albert Einstein.
“Be a man of value, not a man of success.
For value does nothing but GIVE, while success is mostly taking.”
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