Continue to learn, dream, work, collaborate, build, create, and spread love. Most importantly, I encourage you to build for the greater good of humanity. Life is an infinite journey to be the best version of yourself. Along the way, give yourself grace.
Be useful to society and tune out the noise that distracts you (social media, naysayers, and non-believers) in order to build or create something truly extraordinary. Remember, it all starts with you. You have only this moment, so act, fail forward, keep iterating, keep improving, and never stop striving.
Remember, you have agency over your life — so think critically and with intention, embrace a growth mindset, act boldly on your ideas, convictions, passions, and devotion. Surround yourself with people who seek to uplift you, and be that same light for them. Find your people and work together to achieve a shared goal, vision, or mission. Remember, anything is possible - so keep believing, keep the faith, keep making progress each day, and keep moving forward.
Much peace, much love, and God bless.
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.” - Albert Einstein
“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” - Albert Einstein
"100% of the people who don't make it quit. Likewise, just keep going." - Bryson Ward
"One of the greatest things we [humans] possess is are ability to think and to think with clarity." - Bryson Ward
“...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.” - Bruce Lee
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." - Napoleon Hill
“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.” - Nikola Tesla
“Of all things, I liked books best.” - Nikola Tesla
"It is not the critic who counts; the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena." - Theodore Roosevelt
"A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, 'But I was told by others to do thus,' or that, 'Virtue was not convenient at the time.' This will not suffice. Remember that." - from the film Kingdom of Heaven (2005), spoken by the character King Baldwin IV (played by Edward Norton)
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: Fear the LORD , and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.” - Proverbs 3:5-8 KJV
“A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.” - Proverbs 24:5 KJV
"If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small." - Proverbs 24:10 KJV