“Ask the most crying, urgent question: What is the secret of existence? Wherefore and for whose sake do we live? Only those who have not tasted the terror of life, only those who claim that it is a pleasure to live and that more and only pleasure is in store for the generations to come, can deny the essential necessity of asking: Wherefore? For whose sake?”

Abraham Heschel, Man is Not Alone

“It doesn’t matter if that city exists now, or ever will exist. The important thing is to always hold the image of it up before oneself, and, thus beholding it, constitute oneself its citizen.” Plato

"Anyone who genuinely looks for something will find it
A candle is made to become entirely flame.
In that annihilating moment
It has no shadow."
Jalalludin Rumi