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About me:

"Let me feel that I am to be a lover. I am to see to it that the world is the better for me, and to find my reward in the act. Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long, and it would warm the heart to see how fast the vain diplomacy of statesmen, the impotence of armies, and navies, and lines of defence, would be superseded by this unarmed child. Love will creep where it cannot go, will accomplish that by imperceptible methods,---being its own lever, fulcrum, and power,---which force could never achieve. Have you not seen in the woods, in a late autumn morning, a poor fungus or mushroom,---a plant without any solidity, nay, that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly,---by its constant, total, and inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head? It is the symbol of the power of kindness........one day all men will be lovers; and every calamity will be dissolved in the universal sunshine." ----ralph waldo emerson