Howard Thurman - Life Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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Where refugees seek deliverance that never comes
And the heart consumes itself as if it would live,
Where children age before their time
And life wears down the edges of the mind,
Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,
While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,
Where fear companions each day's life,
And Perfect Love seems long delayed.
CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:
In you, in me, in all mankind.

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Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

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The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself... the only true guide you'll ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

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Liberty can be taken away. But freedom! Freedom is the process by which, standing in my place, where I am, I can so act in that place as to influence, order, alter, or change the future—that time is not frozen, that life is not so fixed that it cannot respond to my own will, my own inner processes.... Freedom is the sense of option, the sense of alternatives which only I can affect.

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There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

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Anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.

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Listen To The Long Stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New Hopes Are Being Readied:
Humankind is fashioning a new heart
Humankind is forging a new mind
God is at work.
This is the season of Promise

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