Levenson Quotes & Sayings

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Sam Levenson

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

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. — Sam Levenson

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego. — Lester Levenson

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson

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

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future. — Lester Levenson

Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect. — Lester Levenson

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

Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self. — Lester Levenson

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. — Sam Levenson

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. — Sam Levenson

Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you. — Lester Levenson

Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety. — Lester Levenson

The only limitations you have are the ones that you accept. — Lester Levenson

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. — Sam Levenson

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

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. — Sam Levenson

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

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

So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel Maurice the title character blurts out his truth, 'I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.' It must have felt that way when Forster came of sexual age in the last years of the 19th century: seriously risky and dangerously blurt-able. The public cry had caught Wilde, exposed and arrested him, broken him in prison. He was one face of anxiety to Forster; his mother was another. As long as she lived (and they lived together until she died, when he was 66), he couldn't let her know. — Michael Levenson

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. — Sam Levenson

All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other. — Lester Levenson

Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late. — Sam Levenson

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

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

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

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward. — Lester Levenson

It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. — Sam Levenson

If you want to kill time, try working it to death. — Sam Levenson

When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around
Do you ever really crash, or even make a sound? — Steven Levenson

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

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Your "good old days" are still ahead of you, may you have many of them. — Sam Levenson

The reason God made man before woman was that he didn't want any suggestions. — Sam Levenson

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country. — Sam Levenson

We are all Gods acting like goddamned fools. — Lester Levenson

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. — Lester Levenson

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

The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth. — Lester Levenson

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration. — Lester Levenson

Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every — Thomas Levenson

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. — Sam Levenson

The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average. — Sam Levenson

The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state. — Lester Levenson

Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one. — Lester Levenson

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

Vulcan is long gone, almost completely forgotten. It may seem today to be merely a curiosity, just another mistake our ancestors made, about which we now know better. But the issue of what to do with failure in science was tricky right at the start of the Scientific Revolution, and it remains so now. We may - we do - know more than the folks back then. But we are not thus somehow immune to the habits of mind, the leaps of imagination, or the capacity for error that they possessed. Vulcan's biography is one of the human capacity to both discover and self-deceive. It offers a glimpse of how hard it is to make sense of the natural world, and how difficult it is for any of us to unlearn the things we think are so, but aren't. — Thomas Levenson

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

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

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

Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale — Kevin Dutton

When one really loves, one can never be hurt. — Lester Levenson

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

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

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. — Sam Levenson

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

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us. — Lester Levenson

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor." — Sam Levenson

There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home. — Lester Levenson

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can. — Lester Levenson

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village — Sam Levenson

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button. — Sam Levenson

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. — Lester Levenson

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. — Sam Levenson

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

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

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? — Sam Levenson

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. — Sam Levenson

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

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! — Sam Levenson

Lester Levenson used to say, 'Release and allow yourself to see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be.' During this process, welcome your thoughts, your sensations, your feelings, and the stories that you tell yourself. Just allow them all to be here, and know that everything is okay as it is. Part of what happens when we release this is that we start to recognize the perfection underlying our thoughts and feelings. Begin by making yourself comfortable and focusing your attention inwardly. Now, bring to mind ... an issue that's currently up in your awareness. As you think about that situation, problem, intention, or goal, allow yourself to get in touch with your feelings about it right in this very moment.
— Hale Dwoskin

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. — Sam Levenson

You can't start at the top. — Sam Levenson

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. — Sam Levenson

Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love. — Lester Levenson

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

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way. — Sam Levenson

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart. — Sam Levenson

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it. — Lester Levenson

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up. — Sam Levenson

I began by asking myself, "What do I want out of life?" And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point. — Lester Levenson

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. — Sam Levenson

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

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children. — Sam Levenson

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor." — Sam Levenson

There's no such thing as a mistake
we do it! There's no such thing as an accident
we do it!. — Lester Levenson

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson

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

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

As late as 1742, London hatters beat to death a man who dared shape headgear without having gone through the apprentice system. — Thomas Levenson

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. — Sam Levenson

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind. — Lester Levenson

How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know. — Sam Levenson

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

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

Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does. — Sam Levenson

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. — Sam Levenson

Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself. — Sam Levenson