Leo Rosten Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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 compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

• The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Purpose

• Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the diginity of occasional depression-can find bliss easily enough: in tranquilizing pills, or in senility. The purpose of life is not to be happy.

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  Pain, Solitude, Meaning Of Life

• The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

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  Kindness, Thoughtful, Purpose

• Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

  Leo Rosten

  Pain, Differences, Purpose

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