The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
Interpretation
Life's purpose is to make a positive impact using one's talents.
This quote emphasizes the importance of making a difference in the world through our actions and talents. It suggests that being productive and contributing positively to others' lives gives life meaning, and that we should strive to use our unique gifts to help those around us.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech to inspire people to use their skills for community service.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.
And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.
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