The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

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""The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.""

- Leo Rosten

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"The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter– to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all."

- Leo Rosten

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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- G.K. Chesterton

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