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There is another path to take. It's hard work. You'll be right sometimes, you'll be wrong sometimes. People will doubt you, you'll doubt yourself. But if you are doing something you want and have a passion for, at least you'll have that to guide you.

When you work for other people, they do know what's best for them and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful. But they don't know what's best for you. Only you know that.

It is much easier to describe the structural challenges we face than to describe the human response to those challenges that will change history.

Recognize that you are the change you seek. You are the great agents of change in the world. You can adapt, you can embrace, you can respond in ways that will better your life and better the life of your society. You cannot ignore them. You cannot fight them. But what you can do is adapt and make the world a better place.

It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all love and faith.

The main difference for you, between life yesterday and life tomorrow, is you can go to the bathroom whenever you want. It's a pretty big responsibility, but you've earned it.

Not knowing is just as important, if not more important, because you do not know yet what can't be done.

I had to substitute money with creativity and that's what made all the difference. I had to make a movie in a way that broke the traditional mold and learn not to be a slave to tradition.

You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring. The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint.

Your heart knows the answers to these questions. It is whispering to you right now. Listen to it and follow it. It will always be your best guide in life.

The best way to deal with most difficulties and challenges is to see them as opportunities to help us grow—lessons that are presented to us to help us go further than we have gone before.

A Conscious Business has a deeper purpose beyond only making profits. Just like individual people, by following their hearts, can discover their own sense of deeper purpose, so can the business enterprise.