Since 1996, Leonard’s monthly column of quotations ”Poor Leonard’s Almanack” has appeared in Street Spirit, “a publication of the American Friends Service Committee” distributed by homeless people in the Oakland-Berkeley region of the East Bay. Back issues of Street Spirit, including Poor Leonard’s Almanack, may be seen at http://thestreetspirit.org (archives at bottom of left column). Leonard’s “Frankly Quoted” column is distributed freely over the Internet on the first of the month, consists of about 40 quotes and original thoughts, mostly about current events.
To get on the “Frankly Quoted” listserve, send lfrank@igc.org your e-mail address.
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No one can discharge another’s responsibilities.
A planet-wide crisis affecting everyone is a precondition for social transformation.
Do no wrong either to an enemy or for a friend.
What we see depends largely on what we believe.
Give as good as you get;
Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, till you have good reason not to.
Let no one else’s conscience be your guide.
Make integrity and loving kindness your supreme values.
Move neither to the right nor to the left, but forward.
Never ask more or less of yourself than your very best.
Never underestimate the power of love.
See each new day as the first day of the rest of your life, and live it as though it were the last.
Speak softly and carry a big carrot.
Take twice as long to eat half as much.
Try smarter not just harder.
Want nothin’ that don’t want you.
