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A Renowned Philosopher Explains How to Live A Good Life In One Sentence

This is the secret ingredient that doesn’t get enough attention

Andy Murphy
3 min readJan 10, 2025
Photo by Max Andrey on Unsplash

Quotes are like a dash of honey in tea. They’re small but they make a real difference. And if you have a sweet tooth like me, you’ll know they just make the world a better place.

This quote from Howard Thurman is a drop of honey.

Take a sip.

Drink it down.

Feel how it good it feels.

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs, is people who have come alive.”

When I first started my writing journey over four years ago, I wondered how I would reach readers.

It felt like an impossible task.

This led me to research all the different topics people liked to read and then start writing about them.

This approach failed because I wasn’t being authentic. I was trying to talk about things I didn’t really understand or have experience in and readers knew it.

As frustrating as this was, it was a blessing in disguise because it finally allowed me to write about what I loved. And the more I wrote about these things the more it…

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