Top 100 Levenson Quotes
#2. One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson
#3. When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around
Do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?
Steven Levenson
#4. There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.
Lester Levenson
#5. Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson
#6. It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson
#7. Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
#8. You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.
Lester Levenson
#9. The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.
Lester Levenson
#10. Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
#11. A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.
Sam Levenson
#12. A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.
Lester Levenson
#13. The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.
Lester Levenson
#14. Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.
Lester Levenson
#15. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.
Sam Levenson
#16. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
#17. We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
Lester Levenson
#18. The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.
Sam Levenson
#19. More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.
Sam Levenson
#20. Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
Sam Levenson
#21. I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
Sam Levenson
#22. The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.
Sam Levenson
#24. Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
Sam Levenson
#25. Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.
Lester Levenson
#26. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson
#27. Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it.
Lester Levenson
#28. The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. "I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine," is all non-love.
Lester Levenson
#29. Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.
Lester Levenson
#30. How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.
Sam Levenson
#31. Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.
Lester Levenson
#32. If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.
Lester Levenson
#33. Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson
#34. It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.
Sam Levenson
#35. People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.
Lester Levenson
#36. Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.
Sam Levenson
#37. At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."
Sam Levenson
#38. It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
Sam Levenson
#39. All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.
Lester Levenson
#40. Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
Sam Levenson
#41. Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.
Lester Levenson
#42. Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.
Lester Levenson
#43. Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.
Sam Levenson
#44. There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.
Lester Levenson
#45. If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.
Sam Levenson
#46. We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.
Sam Levenson
#47. There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.
Sam Levenson
#48. Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.
Lester Levenson
#49. The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy ... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.
Sam Levenson
#50. If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
Sam Levenson
#51. Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.
Lester Levenson
#52. One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.
Sam Levenson
#53. The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.
Lester Levenson
#54. If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.
Sam Levenson
#55. We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
Sam Levenson
#56. The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
Lester Levenson
#57. Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.
Sam Levenson
#58. If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.
Sam Levenson
#59. The only limitations you have are the ones that you accept.
Lester Levenson
#60. The enterprise of making sense of the material world turns on a key question: what happens when something observed in nature doesn't fit within the established framework of existing human knowledge?
Thomas Levenson
#61. The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."
Sam Levenson
#62. The reason God made man before woman was that he didn't want any suggestions.
Sam Levenson
#63. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Sam Levenson
#64. Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.
Lester Levenson
#65. The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.
Sam Levenson
#66. When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.
Lester Levenson
#68. Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.
Lester Levenson
#69. Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.
Lester Levenson
#70. You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.
Sam Levenson
#71. What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.
Lester Levenson
#72. The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
#73. Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.
Sam Levenson
#74. Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson
#75. Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village
Sam Levenson
#76. Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.
Sam Levenson
#77. The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.
Sam Levenson
#78. The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson
#79. There's no such thing as a mistake
we do it! There's no such thing as an accident
we do it!.
Lester Levenson
#80. It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.
Sam Levenson
#81. When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.
Sam Levenson
#82. I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.
Sam Levenson
#83. If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!
Lester Levenson
#84. Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you.
Lester Levenson
#85. The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.
Lester Levenson
#86. The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.
Lester Levenson
#87. Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every
Thomas Levenson
#88. You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
Sam Levenson
#90. I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
Sam Levenson
#92. As late as 1742, London hatters beat to death a man who dared shape headgear without having gone through the apprentice system.
Thomas Levenson
#93. It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
Sam Levenson
#96. Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.
Lester Levenson
#97. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Sam Levenson
#98. I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.
Lester Levenson
#99. When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
Sam Levenson
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