Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman
“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Howard Thurman AUTHOR, PHILOSOPHER, THEOLOGIAN, EDUCATOR, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

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