Friday, June 28, 2024

The purpose of life

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be “happy.”
I think the purpose of life is to be useful,
to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate.
It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something,
to have made some difference that you lived at all.

        Leo C. Rosten, The Myths by Which We Live

 

 

 

 

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