What Matters Most
by Lee on November 15, 2008
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
– Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer
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