Quotes from Howard Thurman

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

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.

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.

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.

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

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.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

Perfect love is long delayed.

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.

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.

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.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will 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.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

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

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The 1st is Where am I going? and the 2nd is Who will go with me? If you ever get these questions in the wrong order , you are in trouble.

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.