Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
speech graduation empathy
Doug Marlette
Durham Academy Commencement 2005, 2005
If you have to be perfect, if you have to make a hundred on the test, you may not take the test.
speech graduation failure
Doug Marlette
Durham Academy Commencement 2005, 2005
Feel life in all its pain and mystery. If you can't feel pain, you won't feel joy, either. There's plenty of time to be comatose, like for the rest of eternity.
speech graduation courage
Doug Marlette
Durham Academy Commencement 2005, 2005