Georgette Leblanc quotes

“All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.”
-- Georgette Leblanc

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

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“Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.”
-- Georgette Leblanc

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

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“We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.”
-- Georgette Leblanc

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”

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“a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.”
-- Georgette Leblanc

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”

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“we can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which awaits its birth from ourselves. Each day I feel that I leave myself a little more, the better to go toward my encounter with myself.”
-- Georgette Leblanc

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”

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“To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.”
-- Georgette Leblanc

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”

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“Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.”
-- Georgette Leblanc

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

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“It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.”

“To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.”

“Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.”

“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”

“In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.”

“Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.”

“If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.”

Source : Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

“Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.”

“If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.”

“We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.”