"The true purpose of life is the perfection……" — David O. McKay

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual… - David O. McKay

"The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living."

— David O. McKay

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