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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?’9 Z& g9 \ V+ b1 }
And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’ ^2 X8 f+ @3 N# C. |8 u
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Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’5 D# X, |$ v( f9 Y
And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’% B0 K. d E6 {, j
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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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& ]9 {1 L4 {4 V1 iEven 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.# U: [2 ~3 F h( e- G# U
. i7 \4 s1 Q+ z& mDon’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho |
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