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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?’3 @9 {/ B( `* B# {
And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’1 D. c) S, o6 p2 E% p+ \ L
. p$ P" Y+ ?- ]& b9 t$ UAsk the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’( W; f1 U! u4 q4 }/ |7 d
And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’
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$ g* q: f! \. N. v' p8 eNothing 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.: a/ c5 M6 \, A* Z
8 t" F% d- o9 \ [' s) LEven you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.% A& _2 I5 O, h" `+ A' U; ^" b: k
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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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/ \7 t4 ?$ n \ `* r2 ~+ ^9 g& {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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