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"Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’
2 e8 R+ c! {3 g, hAnd the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’
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+ u- `/ s( A2 @# r e* K& OAsk the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
' B, T! Z) y# w2 Z T. n/ S4 fAnd the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’0 V+ Q+ F; } c; e; H/ B
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Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist." q$ U0 G( z# D* `; \& z u) ]7 E
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Even you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.
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Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible.1 G" a% T0 y& I8 p- J
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Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho |
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