Go find your joy. Whatever that is, go find your joy. It's what you're going to remember in the end. You're not going to remember how you worried.
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Sandra Bullock
Warren Easton Charter School Commencement 2014, 2014
The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
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Jim Carrey
Maharishi University of Management Commencement 2014, 2014
One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, right here, right now, is to decide, without apology, to commit to the journey, and not to the outcome.
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Joyce DiDonato
The Juilliard School Commencement 2014, 2014
The truth is, you have signed up for a life of service by going into the Arts. And the life-altering results of that service in other people's lives will never disappear as fame unquestionably will.
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Joyce DiDonato
The Juilliard School Commencement 2014, 2014
The world needs you. Now, the world may not exactly realize it, but wow, does it need you. It is yearning, starving, dying for you and your healing offer of service through your Art.
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Joyce DiDonato
The Juilliard School Commencement 2014, 2014
We were all made to love. And I've found that we live our best lives, we are at our most successful, not simply because we're smarter than everyone else, or because we hustle harder. The key to success, the key to happiness, is opening your mind and your heart to love.
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John Legend
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2014, 2014
When you achieve your dreams, it's not so much what you get — it's who you become.
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Diana Nyad
Middlebury College Commencement 2014, 2014
I couldn't have done it a fingernail faster. I didn't leave a fingernail in that pool.
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Diana Nyad
Middlebury College Commencement 2014, 2014
What is it you're doing with this one wild and precious life of yours?
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Diana Nyad
Middlebury College Commencement 2014, 2014
Passion is the key reason for choosing a career.
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James Patterson
University of Florida Commencement 2013, 2013
That incomparable feeling is what happens when you do the right thing.
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James Patterson
University of Florida Commencement 2013, 2013
It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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Barack Obama
Morehouse College Commencement 2013, 2013