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Helping others ends up helping you more than anyone. Getting out of your own concerns and caring about someone else's life for a while reminds you that you are not the center of the universe.
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Natalie Portman

Harvard University Commencement 2015, 2015

I don't know jack diddly squat about nothing. I'm just a really good-looking rocker that stumbled into a tremendous acting career.
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Jack Black

Montverde Academy Commencement 2015, 2015

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is arrogance and pride. Failure can lead to the greatest success, which is humility and learning. In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.
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David Brooks

Dartmouth College Commencement 2015, 2015

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty.
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Jason Kilar

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Commencement 2015, 2015

Perhaps this self you've been treasuring for so long is itself the work of many hands.
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Zadie Smith

New School University Commencement 2014, 2014

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.
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Janet Yellen

New York University Commencement 2014, 2014

We are not so good. We are humans, and, as such, we are, without our quite knowing it, always living at least partly in the dark.
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David Remnick

Syracuse University Commencement 2014, 2014

Anyone who tells you they are doing it all perfectly is a liar.
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Shonda Rhimes

Dartmouth College Commencement 2014, 2014

Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs, and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy.
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Barack Obama

Morehouse College Commencement 2013, 2013

Though there is much of life that you must face alone, you cannot make it out here in this world by yourself. Don't leave your support system when you are in distress.
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Wynton Marsalis

University of Vermont Commencement 2013, 2013

Your diploma is really not a ticket to show off what you know. You know what it really is? It's permission to admit to yourself how much you still have yet to learn.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rice University Commencement 2013, 2013

The real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness.
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John Green

Butler University Commencement 2013, 2013