Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

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The tension Stresses Beauty Joy

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Donâ€™t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

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World needs Come alive

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Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

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Free means Ability Deal with Own situation

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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

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During time War Hatred Respectable

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There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

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Every life Singing Angels Some place

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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

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Ask yourself World needs Come alive

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He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.

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Authentic realism Determine Quality Destiny

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What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

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Written Fleeting intimidation Sees Life

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Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.

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Keep alive Dream Heart Cannot lose

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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

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Every one Listens Genuine True guide

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Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

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Love No awareness Merit Demerit

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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

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Stillness Listen Whisper Heart

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Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God....I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

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Prayer Communication Between God Man

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Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

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Silent No limit Power Be released

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Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.

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Ask Come alive Do it

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The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

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Measure Man's estimate Strength Weapons

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Growth always involves the risk of failure.

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Growth Involves Risk Failure

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There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?

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Question Ask ourselves Going With me

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A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

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Dream Bearer New possibility

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To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

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Love Make Heart Door

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Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

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Fate Raw material Unanticipated Destiny

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Life wears down the edges of the mind.

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Life wears Edges Mind

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Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

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Twilight Time Pause Nature

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Perfect love Delayed

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He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

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Who fears Delivered Destruction

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At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

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Life Hard purposefulness To live

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What the world need is people who have come alive.

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World People Come alive

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Follow the grain in your own wood....

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Follow Grain Own wood

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"28 Howard Thurman Quotes & Sayings

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Howard Thurman

Donâ€™t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Howard Thurman

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Howard Thurman

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.

Howard Thurman

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Howard Thurman

Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.

Howard Thurman

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

Howard Thurman

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Howard Thurman

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Howard Thurman

Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God....I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

Howard Thurman

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Howard Thurman

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

Howard Thurman

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?

Howard Thurman

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Howard Thurman

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Howard Thurman

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman

What the world need is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

Follow the grain in your own wood....

Howard Thurman

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