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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?’
$ \" l. U* ^1 F$ s: {( z2 ` TAnd the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’3 \9 }& C9 [7 z K+ g. G& M
- D9 ~2 Y9 `" o+ L; G) s2 @# u' p- NAsk the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
. Q5 `' J6 g$ BAnd the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’: h2 ], v ^% K, }7 q# J; H b5 D
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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.
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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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; F( A) r, g* O4 y, G: m% NDon’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho |
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