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
I wish there was a way to know you're in the good ol' days before you've actually left them. Good ol' days are marked by relatively high levels of foolishness. Case in point: college.
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Ed Helms
Cornell University Commencement 2014, 2014
That incomparable feeling is what happens when you do the right thing.
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James Patterson
University of Florida Commencement 2013, 2013
The first steps toward non-violence, which is surely an absolute obligation we all bear, is to begin to think carefully and to ask others to do the same.
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Judith Butler
McGill University Honorary Doctorate Address 2013, 2013
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
Being in nature gave me an unbelievable confidence in myself. I found a beauty, strength, and an inner peace that I never knew was present.
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Stephen R. Kellert
University of Western Sydney Commencement 2013, 2013
Do all the other things, the ambitious things — travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love — but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
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George Saunders
Syracuse University Convocation 2013, 2013
A peaceful world means a compassionate world. If you respect others' life, you love others — how can a person who has that kind of motivation use force to eliminate them? Impossible.
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Dalai Lama
Tulane University Commencement 2013, 2013
Real happiness has very much to do with our emotion, not money. Everybody wants a happy life, happy family, happy community. So please pay some attention about our inner value.
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Dalai Lama
Tulane University Commencement 2013, 2013
For in learning how to be a nobody, you will learn how not to be a jerk. You will tip well. You will empathize. You will be a mentor, and a generous one.
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John Green
Butler University Commencement 2013, 2013
You're stronger than you seem, you're braver than you believe, and you're smarter than you think.
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James Carville
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Commencement 2013, 2013