Every time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.  And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression.  - Robert F. Kennedy

Life is a mission.  Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray.  Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.  - Giuseppe Mazzini

"Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further.  This is the road that Buddha and every great person has gone, whether consciously or not, insofar as fortune favored his quest.   The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All." -Hermann Hesse

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