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Postanly Weekly, Issue #390

Postanly Weekly, Issue #390

The Purpose of Life is to be Useful, Not Happy

Thomas Oppong
Dec 11, 2020
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Welcome to Issue #390

The Purpose of Life is to be Useful, Not Happy

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, an essayist, a lecturer and a philosopher said that. He was right.

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