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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
–Rumi

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

–Bertrand Russell

And when I gaze upon you,
Who mutely stand above the desert plains
Which heaven with its far circle but confines
Or often, when I see you
Following step by step my flock and me,
Or watch the stars that shine there in the sky,
Musing, I say within me:
“Wherefore those many lights,
That boundless atmosphere,
And infinite calm sky? And what the meaning
Of this vast solitude? And what am I?”

–Giacomo Leopardi

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

–Leonardo da Vinci