Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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- Howard Thurman
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- As quoted in Violence Unveiled (1996) by Gil Bailie, p. xv
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- Christianity
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