Leo Rosten Quotes

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• I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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  We see things as we are, not as they are.

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  Appearance

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

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  Trying, Firsts, Succeed

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• I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”

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• Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

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  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book compiled by Laurence J. Peter, p. 100, 1979.

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• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

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  Happiness, Happy, Heart

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• Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

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  Money, Poverty, Wealth

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• Where there is too much, something is missing.

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  Missing, Too Much

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• O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

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  Children, Simple, Play

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• Thinking is harder work than hard work.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Harder

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• Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

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  Inspirational, Humility, Self

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• Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

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  Powerful, Men, Drug

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• Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

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  Games, Play, Machines

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

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  Addresses, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Paint

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• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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  Communication, Humor, Play

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”

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• The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

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  Laughing, Luck, May

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• The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Purpose

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• Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Capacity

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Wisdom, Attitude

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• What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

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  Wall, Green

  "The Joys of Yiddish". Book by Leo Rosten, 1968.

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• The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

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  Kindness, Thoughtful, Purpose

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• You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

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  Children, Men, People

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• I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

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  Believe, People, Atheism

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• A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

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  Communication, Writing, Needs

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• Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

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  Pain, Differences, Purpose

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