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Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived.

Adam Braun

I asked a boy begging on the streets, ‘If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?’ and he answered me with two words: ‘A pencil.’ Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
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Answered Anything Boy Luckily Pencil Pocket Street World
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I’ve taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos.
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Bracelet Long People Taken Trip Wear
In moments of uncertainty…i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
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Happen Life Live Proud Two Path Uncertainty
As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways.
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Core Easiest Human Being Identification Meaningful Thinking Two Value
Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.
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Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
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Act Big Dream Small Start Unreasonable
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006
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Asked Beginning Boy Dream Journey Pencil Single Traveling
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Attainment Educational Enjoy Family Grandparent Parent Virtue
Speak the language of the person you want to become.
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Create Language Making Person Speak Time Want
We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
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Familiar Fear Leaving Natural Overcome Surrounding Unfamiliar
It’s the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.
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Different Enable Different People Presence Smarter Surround Yourself
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations
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Amazing Art Inspiring Pencil Poetry Transcendent Uplifting
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education.
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Building Bussiness Donor Mean Office Space School Successful Surprise
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don’t have the life experiences to know what can’t be done.
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Done Element Experience Life Powerful
When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you’re producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Business Creating Good Office Producing Renting Space Staff Training
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave

Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived.

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Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived.

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