Lawrence LeShan Professions : Psychologist Born : September 6, 1920 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Lawrence LeShan Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease. Lawrence LeShan cancer discovery inspirational We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it. Lawrence LeShan knowing meditation lost Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago. Lawrence LeShan long-ago growth motivational I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy. Lawrence LeShan holy reason knows Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves. Lawrence LeShan keeping-promises promise A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being. Lawrence LeShan degrees able men Similar Authors Bruno Bettelheim psychologist Boris Sidis psychologist Anthony Greenwald psychologist Arnold Gesell psychologist Arno Gruen psychologist Anna Freud psychologist All Authors