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"All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do."

"Some of us fast so that we can have less discomfort in life. The reason is not far-fetched - God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose."

"The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly."

"Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential."

"To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up."

"I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe."
Explore more quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."

"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar, it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
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