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There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of human beings ebbing and flowing like the tides of the sea.

Howard Thurman

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

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

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

Community cannot feed for long on itself; it can only flourish where always the boundaries are giving way to the coming of others from beyond them — unknown and undiscovered brothers.

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman

Born: November 18, 1899

Died: April 10, 1981 (aged 81)

Bio: Howard Thurman was an influential African American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader.

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