I was saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Jobs today… but I have also been moved as Facebook has lit up with people sharing quotes, pictures and memories. And it just solidifies what I already knew, but needed to be reminded of. People respond to passion, they respond to integrity, to quality, to leadership, to intellect, to kindness, to hope, to love.
People who have found their passion and live it out on a day to day basis shine- and his light shines brightly, even now in the midst of a dark night.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
~ Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
~ Steve Jobs
Mr. Jobs- Thank you for changing the world.
Erica Staab 
Beautiful tribute my beautiful friend. While I know he is free, and his spirit is moving on to the next place, I can’t help feeling sadness, and like a great deal of oxygen has been sucked from the room, from the world. His was an exceptional life. I am grateful to have lived in this time with such a extraordinary visionary. Our very own modern-day daVinci. Truly inspirational.
Thank you Lori!
And Brene Brown had this quote on her tribute that I love…
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.”
“Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
http://www.ordinarycourage.com/my-blog/2011/10/6/steve-jobs.html