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Oct 24, 2006

"If we live thinking of ourselves all the time, our life will seem short, it starts with our birth and it ends when we die! But if we live for others, meaning, we live for a notion and a methodology, our life will seem very long! It starts since humanity existed and it lasts until after we die." --Syed Qutub

Modest School Teacher Wills Millions To Charity

Roberta Langtry spent most of her career in Toronto working as a speech therapist specializing in helping children with autism. When she died, at the age of 89, she willed a stunning $4.3 million to the Nature Conservancy of Canada, a charity that buys environmentally sensitive land and turns it into nature reserves. Her gift turned out to be the largest donation ever received by an environmental organization in Canadian history. Though Langtry lived modestly and not even her closest friends knew of her hidden fortune, during her long life, she gave several $25000-plus, anonymous gifts to people she knew to be down on their luck.