Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.Leo Tolstoy
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.Leo Tolstoy
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.Angela Davis
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.Audrey Hepburn
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.Niccolo Machiavelli