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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Doing what you must is duty. Doing what you should is virtue. Doing what you can is service. Doing what you are afraid of is courage. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. –Henry David Thoreau

The most Important reason to know who you are is that it’s the first step in becoming who you CAN be.- Michael Josephson

BE A PERSON OF CHARACTERBE HONESTeven if it costs more than you want to pay.TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT even if they don’t seem to deserve it.FULFILL YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES even when you could dodge them.CARE ABOUT PEOPLEeven if you don’t know them.BE FAIR even when you have the power to take more than our share.PLAY BY THE RULESeven when others do …

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha

A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality. -Winston Churchill

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson