But I’m doing it in a spirit that I think my 14-year-old self would have appreciated. Because for all us, no matter our backgrounds, we have to consider: what value can we add? How can we help others by sharing ourselves? What do we want our impact to be in the world?

So take up that microphone. Start writing that blog. Go live with that Twitter feed. And ask yourself: what are you doing to leave a mark that matters?

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Leaving a Mark That Matters

2:25 PM Tuesday May 15, 2012 
by Dorie Clark

Let’s be awkward together.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.” - the hobbit

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh (via julie911)

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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

- Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)

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God has given you so many gifts to sow love and to give hope, to shine light and to spread joy. Abundant gifts. Use them. Give to yourself and give to others. There is an endless spring where they come from.

Books are doors that lead you into the street. With them you learn, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives and multiply yours by one thousand.

- Arturo Perez-Reverte, La Reina del Sur (via quote-book)

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