Graduation

Many are the plans in a man's heart, but the Lord directs his steps.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well and living fully.

Your passion must come from the things that fill you from the inside.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed. It is the things we do not.

No question is too stupid. You're not as smart as you think you are. You never will be. There's always room to learn. Don't be scared to ask.

What is failure? If I stayed, that would be failure. I had to be true to myself. You've got to listen to the voice in your gut. It is individual. It is unique. It is yours. It's called being authentic.

The only formula is that there is no formula. There is no easy way to get from point A to point B, nor is there any right way.

Time is not money. Time is time. When your time is over, you will be remembered for what you did, not for what you never got around to doing.

The corollary to carpe diem is gratitude — gratitude for simply being alive, for having a day to seize. The taking of breath, the beating of the heart.

Sometimes we need an event to shock us into the present. Some of us require a catastrophic experience to remind us that we are indeed alive. Others know this from their reading of poetry — a somewhat less traumatic experience.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well and living fully. For the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed. It is the things we do not.