" Some do-gooders are happy, some are not. The happy ones are happy for the same reason anyone is happy—love, work, purpose. It’s do-gooders’ unhappiness that is different, a reaction to… knowing that the world is full of misery and that most people don’t really care. And that, try as they might, they cannot do much about either of those things. "

― Larissa MacFarquhar , Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help