Don’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 (theologian, born on this day, 1899)
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? Fanny Brice (entertainer, born on this day, 1891)
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Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. George Lorimer (writer, born on this day, 1867)
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances E. Willard (social reformer, born on this day, 1839)
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If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words. Rita Dove (poet laureate, born on this day,…Read More
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“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.” Karl Krauss (Austrian author, born on this day, 1874)
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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won’t get run over. Miriam Makeba (South African musician, born on this day, 1932)
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. Martin Buber (philosopher, born on this day, 1878)
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. Alan Alda (actor, born on this day, 1936)
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon (philosopher, born on this day, 1561)
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