"It is Jesus in fact that you seek
when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find
satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who
provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for
compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he
who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try
to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with
your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be
grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and
patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more
fraternal.
Dear young people, in these noble
undertakings you are not alone."
-
St John
Paul II, Address of the Holy Father at the 15th World Youth Day
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