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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?’
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Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’; u! G$ m5 \' W7 \8 N6 E$ a
And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’6 Y6 r# }/ F* P9 j& f; a! t
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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.2 ~' j% O9 _6 q) `" O7 N% v3 W
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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.
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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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