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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?’
5 Y# g& I {* E" j' xAnd the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’
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Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
) T) E' l9 S7 ?$ E, q" {. g+ x( z' QAnd the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’* x! a* i3 {* Y9 L
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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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% @- y0 B. q$ M, @' s% VEven 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.( X5 H. P* A' m+ W2 Y9 n6 K
) c3 m' z) K# c5 s5 a' aDon’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho |
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