Howard Thurman Short Quotes

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Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

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A man must be at home somewhere before he can feel at home everywhere.

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

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Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

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

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Utopia is what the imagination of man has to say about the possibilities of the human spirit.

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Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

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

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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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Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

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The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

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In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.

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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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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.

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Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

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It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

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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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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.

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If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.

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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.

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