Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness is a byproduct of function purpose and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life and that happiness not pain or mindless self-indulgence is the proof of your moral integrity since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit I'll break up with someone on purpose.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

That no government so called can reasonably be trusted or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals good bad and otherwise.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful something good.

Without wisdom the future has no meaning no valuable purpose.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself against any threat.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts and heart and hand with them we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy healthy and holy.