Better a dish of illusion and a hearty a... by Harry Allen Overstreet | We Heart Quotes

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

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Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

BOOKSIf minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of its futures. To read books is one way of growing along with one’s fellows-in-growth.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

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