Lawrence Leshan Quotes

#1. A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

Lawrence LeShan

#2. Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

Lawrence LeShan

#3. I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

Halsey

#4. . . . An army cannot be run according to rules of etiquette.

Samuel B. Griffith

#5. I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.

Lawrence LeShan

#6. We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

Lawrence LeShan

#7. Growth and change are never easy ... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Lawrence LeShan

#8. Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

David Graeber

#9. On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#10. There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.

Richard Preston

#11. Be your own father, young man

Ralph Ellison

#12. Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

Lawrence LeShan

#13. What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,
to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Jeremy Collier

#14. unfair - whether you live or die bears no relationship to what kind of person

Lawrence LeShan

#15. I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.

John Dean