2024: Index L

 Lamartine, Alphonse de see De Lamartine, Alphonse

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."

Lamb, Elizabeth Searle

"We need to trust this: in the midst of our daily life activities, the possibility to slow down, to stop, and then to appreciate naturally unfolds.  For a fleeting moment we pause and note the sunlight on the sheets as we make the bed, note the warm sun on our cup as we sip tea, or note the warm sun on our cup as we sip tea, or note the fading on the curtain as we enter the room.  And we let out a breath or sigh.  Pausing."  (02/28/2022) 

Lao Tzu

"A truly good man is not aware of his goodness.  And is therefore good."  (10/28/2022)

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"Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end.  You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom."  (11/13/2022)

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"Do you have the patience to wait 

"Until your mind settles and the water is clear?

"Can you remain unmoving

"Until the right action arises by itself?"  (07/14/2022)

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"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough."

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"If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial.

"If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.

"If you want to become full, let yourself be empty."  (02/12/2022)

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"The world belongs to those who let go." (2023)

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"To know that you do not know is the best.  To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."  (11/02/2023)

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"True words aren't eloquent; 

eloquent words aren't true.

Wise men don't need to prove their point;

men who need to prove their point aren't wise."  (08/25/2022) 

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"When you look for it, there is nothing to see.

"When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear.

"When you use it, it is inexhaustible."  (09/29/2022)

Lawrence, D. H.

"Art-speech is the only truth.  An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day.  And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth.  Truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today."  (05/19/2022)

Leacock, Stephen

"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour."  (09/24/2022)

Leschak, Peter M.

"All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers.  Everyone is looking, not many are seeing."  (01/05/2022)

Li Po

"We sit together, the mountain 

"and me

"Until only the mountain remains" (11/29/2022)

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Longchenpa

"Ah, yes, this world is just a dream."  (03/24/2022)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

"Each dew-drop and rain-drop has a whole heaven in it."  (08/06/2023)