“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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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 quote card

American theologian and civil rights leader (1899–1981), author of Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), whose work influenced Martin Luther King Jr.

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