People gain strength by living for others...
So when we decide what's right, or what to put our hearts into, we shouldn't use "for someone's sake" as some cheap excuse...
That way, whatever answers you come up with, at least you've chosen your own path...
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
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