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" Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to. "

Srikumar Rao

Learn

Life

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Srikumar Rao

Yourself

You

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" Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away. "

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Driving

Stop

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Will

Happy

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Life

Will

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" Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do. "