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The purpose of life

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

(my first post here. I just love this quote.)
Posted by Dilip Mutum at 6/13/2006

1 comment:

Beam me up Scotty said...

I love it too.

But this made me laugh

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer

13.6.06

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