It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Hugo L Black, (Feb 27 1886-1971), US supreme court justice; He was best known for his absolutist belief in the Bill of Rights as a guarantee of civil liberties; served on the Supreme Court for 34 years.