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 measure of a person
is not where they stand
in moments of comfort and convienence...
but where they stand at moments
of challenge and controversy.
The secret of health for both mind
and body is not to mourn for the past,
worry about the future,
or anticipate troubles,
but to live in the present moment
wisely and earnestly.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged
his wise men to invent him a sentence,
to be ever in view, and which should be
true and appropriate in all times and situation.
They presented him with the words:
"And this, too, shall pass away."
How much it expresses!
How chastening in the hour of pride...
how consoling in the depth of affliction.
~Abraham Lincoln~
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