Purpose

Through inner peace, all your profession, all your knowledge, can be constructive. But if all your professional knowledge is motivated by anger, hatred, suspicion — then your knowledge becomes destructive.

There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs. There are as many ways to do this as there are kinds of loneliness, but all of them require presence, all of them require the hard work of human computing.

You must always make the path for yourself. There is no secret society out there that will tap you on the shoulder one night and show you the way.

If you must find your own path, and we have left you no easy path, then decide now to choose the hard path that leads to the life and the world that you want.

You do not pass through this life. It passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball.

There are 30,000 days in your life. I realized there are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more words of a story. Instead of trying to make my life perfect, I tried to make it interesting.

No, you will not find your passion. Your passion will find you. Relax and wait for it.

A career decision based only on money and not on love of the work or a desire to make a difference is a recipe for unhappiness.

You have to figure out what you love to do, what you have conviction about, and go do that.

Be bold, make courageous choices, and bet on yourself. You don't need to know now what that impact will be or how it will happen, because nobody ever does.

You don't have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you. You never know where you might end up.