I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
The ones among you who  will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

~ Albert Schweitzer

People say, what is the sense of our small effort?
They cannot see that we must lay  one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples  that spread in all directions.
Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
​No  one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

~ Dorothy Day

The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic
or the  pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps
may not  disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is
a perfect anodyne to the  restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,
​and if I were a bird I would  fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~  George Eliot