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Leo C. Rosten

Thursday, March 17th, 2011 | Quotes

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 and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

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Leo C. Rosten

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