Roughly during the first half of our lives we are trying to become something, during the other half we are trying to get rid of it. Because this "something" is way too narrow.
"Leave the seeing in the seeing. Leave the hearing in the hearing."
"--- I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Eugene V. Debs
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
"It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness. Even if you think you have very little to give, give it anyway."