Harry Allen OverstreetIf 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 th… ▶332HopeHumanityLife
Harry Allen OverstreetBetter a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. ✨ Harry Allen Overstreet (1931). The Enduring Quest: A Search for… ▶291LifeLovePhilosophy
Harry Allen OverstreetThe immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.3710Thought
Harry Allen OverstreetGoodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.3410HumanityTruth
Harry Allen OverstreetTime the devourer of everything.264Time
Harry Allen OverstreetOne 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 … ▶222Reflection
Harry Allen OverstreetRecreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become a… ▶213Humanity
Harry Allen OverstreetThe very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world. ✨ Harry All… ▶182HumanityPoliticsThought
Harry Allen OverstreetSorrow, 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. 185HopeHumanityLove
Harry Allen OverstreetThe happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sak… ▶2310Thought
Harry Allen OverstreetTo hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.218TimeTruth
Harry Allen OverstreetI 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 se… ▶147HopePoliticsThought
