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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?’
' o U) V6 Z# SAnd the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’% E$ S, G7 x' U( \2 n" G. k
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Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’" X! T4 f2 k; h3 K2 }8 H
And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’
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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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( \' F( G1 m5 E6 P; v. MEven you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.$ b2 h F5 g) v% b# {, D5 a. P0 m
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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.- C- X9 P, }; Z5 o
7 T* }6 H$ b! b8 t' l0 b+ v% a( cDon’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho |
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