As we enter graduation season, schedules are getting full, stress is high, and the future is being discussed by an expanding number of people. Who will our graduating young men and women become? Will they pursue their passion and purpose or will they be forced into a mold someone else designs for them?

Will they become Planet Changers, or will they become Planet Dwellers? My prayer is for our young men and women to realize their potential and move in a direction and path that unleashes their soul in creativity, beauty and transformation.

Here’s to our graduates. Some inspiration and thoughts to help them break the mold of the mundane and ordinary. To escape a “good enough” life or a”settled for” life. Dream some God sized dreams that are larger than you and have the capacity to push humanity closer to our potential, free of the influences that would strangle passion, creativity and love…

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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” ~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!


The fireworks begin today.  Each diploma is a lighted match.  Each one of you is a fuse.
~Edward Koch


You are educated.  Your certification is in your degree.  You may think of it as the ticket to the good life.  Let me ask you to think of an alternative.  Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~Tom Brokaw


[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities.  It also holds pitfalls.  The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
~Woody Allen, “My Speech to the Graduates,” Side Effects, 1980


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius


Spread joy.  Chase your wildest dreams.  ~Patch Adams


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.  ~Albert Einstein


If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.  ~Vince Lombardi


You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands.  Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.  ~John Updike


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  ~Albert Einstein


Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.  ~Roger Babson


If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.  ~Milton Berle


What we are is God’s gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell


Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.  ~Arie Pencovici


Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.  ~Steve Jobs


Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  ~Mark Twain

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