Maria Popova - 2016 Graduation Speaker at the Annenberg School for Communication

[@rebeccae5691]

Brilliant and beautiful. Thank you, Maria Popova 🌱

[@melkanabrakalova-trevithic4158]

I am a fan of Maria Popova's amazing blogs and speeches (at the age of 32), I like her way of seeing and connecting different parts of the world and our own psyche, her incredible command of English, as a second language, her lyricism, idealism, her way of being a philosopher and a poet, a writer and a connector. And when I have more time I enjoy her Brain Pickings blogs.

[@anasshaikh6855]

Every line spoken by Maria is profound. I am super impressed with her.

[@sattarabus]

Maria Popova is a prodigious confluence of brains, beauty and bravura. She deprecates calcification of the soul and its sewage---cynicism. Instead, she recommends the vitalizing elixir of trust, toil, and tenacity. I am going to smile at a stranger first thing tomorrow morning, and pedal slower to decode the message of tireless Spring.

[@HardyJap]

yeah, this could have been phrased a bit simpler

[@georgiabification]

Japjit Singh N. Do you realise the irony of your cynicism here? Try commenting on something good!

[@trentynbotello1028]

@@HardyJap Breathe in that spring air!

[@phixit101]

Thank you Maria. I needed to hear your wisdom. I'm feeling much better!

[@tanvidalvi5470]

Maria is love. Maria is life.

[@SanjeevBinaykia]

Maria, thank you for putting these ideas into words, and for being the catalyst to find our inspiration within ourselves.

[@centuriesofblood]

The greatest living philosopher on the planet.

[@jaqueline5846]

Honestly. Forget Alain de Bottom...haha.

[@erickaparicio6118]

She's my role model. Her words always bring me to awe.

[@brahmveerkaur2723]

❤️ you speak like poetry!

[@patrickmccormack4318]

Maria Popova is speaking of love and its application. Good to hear.

[@naveenkatti]

This is the best advise to students and to the whole world. Would love to revisit this as often as I can to push myself to live the way Maria articulated in this speech

[@mihikanepal4939]

maria, you are a lovely human being. thank you for this message, which i keep coming back to over and over again.

[@linzhang6618]

Beautifully said

[@susanchast5836]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@PoetlaureateNFDL]

Bright person.

[@teeI0ck]

Manjistha Seeburn

[@lefteris1976]

great content. but perhaps the delivery was not extemporaneous enough for the graduates. but speaking is an art and a skill that is VERY difficult. Anyway great job Maria, i enjoyed it.