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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. Leo Rosten. Inspirational, Life, Happiness. Leo Rosten (1978).
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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.”
- “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.
- “I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” ― Leo Rosten, Captain Newman, M.D.
- “The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.” ― Leo Rosten.
- Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. Leo Rosten.
- First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. Leo Rosten.
- Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. Leo Rosten.
- We see things as we are, not as they are. Leo Rosten.
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Nov 4, 2022 · Leo Calvin Rosten ( 11 April 1908 – 19 February 1997) was an American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan and for The Joys of Yiddish (1968).
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