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The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Inspirational Purpose Truth

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

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Leo Rosten Animals Children Humor W C Fields

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

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Gentleness Strength

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.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Writing Writing Life

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.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Adulthood Fairy Tales

I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Quips Comments

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Communication Insight

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Think Extremists Agreeing

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten God Me Why

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

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Leo Rosten See Things

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

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Push Brains Hearts

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Capacity Confront Imagined

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

~ Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten Conservative Dead After
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