In this age of Infinite Browsing Mode, we should pick a damn movie and watch it all the way through — before we fall asleep.
speech graduation purpose
Pete Davis
Harvard University Commencement 2018, 2018
Enjoy today, because it only happens once. And this has been one hell of a ride.
speech graduation gratitude
John Cena
Cushing Academy Commencement 2015, 2015
The way we spend our days is the way we spend our lives.
speech graduation discipline
Ari Weinzweig
University of Michigan Commencement 2015, 2015
Take a minute and just enjoy life. Sniff those roses, you guys. Sniff deep. Don't just rush into life's next chapter. You just climbed a mountain — twelve years of nose to the grindstone.
speech graduation gratitude
Jack Black
Montverde Academy Commencement 2015, 2015
I speak because I think our time on earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment we pretend to be what we are not, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody wants us to say, then we are wasting our time on earth.
speech graduation authenticity
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Wellesley College Commencement 2015, 2015
What is it you're doing with this one wild and precious life of yours?
speech graduation mortality
Diana Nyad
Middlebury College Commencement 2014, 2014
Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.
speech graduation balance
Wynton Marsalis
University of Vermont Commencement 2013, 2013
This is not preparation for life. This is life.
speech graduation wisdom
Wynton Marsalis
University of Vermont Commencement 2013, 2013
Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.
speech graduation authenticity
Joss Whedon
Wesleyan University Commencement 2013, 2013
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.
speech graduation mortality
Drew Houston
MIT Commencement 2013, 2013
It is an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours.
speech graduation mortality
Tim Minchin
University of Western Australia Commencement, 2013, 2013
Raise the rest of your life to meet you. Don't search for defining moments because they will never come. The moments that define you have already happened. And they will already happen again. And it passes so quickly.
speech graduation self discovery
Peter Dinklage
Bennington College Commencement 2012, 2012