Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you to another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door.
speech graduation self discovery
Ann Patchett
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
faith self discovery wisdom
Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005