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Life will happen to you, whether you try to guide it or not, so you might as well try to influence the outcome. You have to know what you want and you have to be willing to go after it.

The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It's to lose yourself.

Happiness is love. Full stop. The surest way to measure whether a person is happy, healthy and well is to ask: How deeply is that person enmeshed in deep passionate commitments?

You don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

Creativity is not something you are, it's something you do. You have to work at it.

Bring your own vision to your work and look for ways you can give something to the world. Inspire people. Make a difference.

Do good for people. Learn about people. Have passion for people, and you'll always be happy with your art and with yourselves.

Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision.

The essence of leadership, when all is said and done, is the personal assumption of the moral duty to be proactive in building our future.

There will be many doors along your path, and behind each of those doors will be things that can change you and your lives. But you will recognize them only if you have embraced a philosophy of appreciating everything that happens to you.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out.

Opportunity can be manufactured. You can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action, but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own.