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In short, whereas the happy life is characterized by ease and pleasure, the meaningful life is characterized by generosity, deep engagement with difficult pursuits, and a coherent sense of how the self develops across time.
Eli J. Finkel • The All-or-Nothing Marriage
It’ll be awesome to live a long and healthy life, but the purpose of life isn’t to have as much of it as possible. The purpose is to know what to do with what you have. Without something worthy of dying for (dedicating yourself to), you can live 900 lifetimes and still feel like it’s not long enough.3
The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.47
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable… The purpose of life is to matter—to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
When people prattle on about needing to find their “life’s purpose,” what they really mean is that it’s no longer clear to them what matters, what is a worthy use of their limited time here on earth6—in short, what to hope for. They are struggling to see what the before/after of their lives should be.