If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
To try to be better is to be better.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.