If you run out of hope at the end of the day, rise in the morning and put it on again with your shoes.
speech graduation resilience
Barbara Kingsolver
Duke University Commencement 2008, 2008
The universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.
speech graduation empathy
Angela Ahrendts
Ball State University Commencement 2008, 2008
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
speech graduation empathy
J.K. Rowling
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
speech graduation wisdom
J.K. Rowling
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
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.
speech graduation gratitude
Billy Collins
Colorado College Commencement 2008, 2008
Life is not about warming yourself by the fire. Life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match.
speech graduation gratitude
Larry Lucchino
Boston University Commencement 2008, 2008
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.
speech graduation empathy
J.K. Rowling
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
Memorials are the way we make promises to the future about the past.
speech graduation legacy
Alice Greenwald
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2007, 2007
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
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become.
speech graduation self discovery
Jodie Foster
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2006, 2006
Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day like a photograph coming into focus, like a color that becomes more vivid in contrast with its surroundings.
speech graduation self discovery
Jodie Foster
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2006, 2006
I just wanted him to keep staring at the bird, because we both know that it could fly away at any moment.
speech graduation love
Marian Fontana
Massachusetts School of Law Commencement 2006, 2006