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Howard Thurman

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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


#inspirational

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes youcome alive, and go do it.Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.


— Howard Thurman


#attitude

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


— Howard Thurman


#dream #enlarged #great #great hope #hope

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


— Howard Thurman


#determination #hard #life #life is a #live

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


— Howard Thurman


#during #even #guise #hatred #masquerade

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.


— Howard Thurman


#destruction #fears #literally #who

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


#dark #die #fade #guard #her

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.


— Howard Thurman


#brothers #cannot #coming #community #feed

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.


— Howard Thurman


#cause #center #commitment #consent #dies






About Howard Thurman






Did you know about Howard Thurman?

In 1944 Thurman left his tenured position at Howard to help the Fellowship of Reconciliation establish the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco California. He was Dean of Chapel at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades wrote 21 books and in 1944 helped found a multicultural church. The university holds the Howard Thurman Papers and the Sue Bailey Thurman Papers where they are catalogued and available to researchers.

Howard Thurman (1899 – April 10 1981) was an influential American author philosopher theologian educator and civil rights leader.

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