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You will need to find your passion. You will not find that passion in things and you will not find that passion in money, because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the metric — and there will always be someone with more.

Life is not about warming yourself by the fire. Life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match.

Be strong enough to say, 'I don't know.' When you don't know, say so. Don't guess. Don't fake it.

A rich life is a balanced life. Don't focus too early on your career. Deviate a bit. Embrace change.

Be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you, because ultimately your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Allow life to take you on its glorious journey. The best time to do it is now, when you're young and full of curiosity and have no fear.

Create your own definition of success. Don't let it be judged or guided by someone else's measurements, by someone else's expectations or limitations.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

The first five minutes of the game does not decide the outcome. It never does.

True success is measured in how you play the game of life — that you honor those that have come before you by playing the game with great integrity, with honor and class.