Michael Leunig Quotes

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There are only two feelings, Love and fear:
There are only two languages, Love and fear:
There are only two activities, Love and fear:
There are only two motives, two procedures,
two frameworks, two results, Love and fear,
Love and fear.

Michael Leunig
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that

Michael Leunig
Yet there is a nation of individuals who occupy a common ground - of which they are the custodians, whether they realise it or not. Arrayed with a huge variety of creatures, plants and land forms, in spite of its use and misuse at the hands of settlers and occupiers, it is a unique natural estate of great beauty, spirit and strength.

Michael Leunig
I think from the time I could open my eyes I was aware that there seemed to be something else going on amongst those around me which was not talked about... there was another truth.

Michael Leunig
God Help Us To Live Slowly:
To Move Simply:
To Look Softly:
To Allow Emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen.

Michael Leunig
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

Michael Leunig
In order to be truthful
We must do more than speak the truth.
We must also hear truth.
We must also receive truth.
We must also act upon truth.
We must also search for truth.
The difficult truth
Within us and around us.
We must devote ourselves to truth.
Otherwise we are dishonest
And our lives are mistaken.
God grant us the strength and the courage
To be truthful.
Amen

Michael Leunig
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

Michael Leunig
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it's sinking.

Michael Leunig