"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
"I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
"And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. 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."
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer."
"You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better."
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
What these two great gentlemen have in common is that they have left behind their legacy in the form of real life stories which will continue to inspire people to achieve their dreams and live a great life.
These two gentlemen had started writing their stories long before they even knew that they would one day be sharing these stories to people all around the world.
Have you decided what stories are you going to tell to your next generation?
How would your story sound like?
Is it going to be a story that speaks of your determination in achieving your dreams?
Or is it going to be a story that speaks of your regrets, misadventures and how you had lost sight of your dreams?
Like it or not, you are writing your story NOW. Choose your contents wisely. :)
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