“As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way.”
"How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined."
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Awareness
"If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more."
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Awareness
"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Self-awareness
"Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Courage
"Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that."
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Motivation
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
- William James
Contribution
"The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better."
- Robert F. Kennedy
Contribution
"The best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."
- Wallace Wattles
Contribution
"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Contribution
"A veces sentimos que lo que hacemos es tan solo una gota en el mar, pero el mar sería menos si le faltara una gota."
- Mother Teresa
Contribution