"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." — Laozi, Philosopher of ancient China
"We make doors and windows for a room: but it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus while the tangible has advantages, it is the intangible that makes it useful." — Laozi, Philosopher of ancient China
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live." — Laozi, Philosopher of ancient China
"I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife." — Philip Larkin, English poet, born 1922
"Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe." — Doug Larson, American editor, born 1926
"I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so." — Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer, born 1894
"We create poetry in a multicolored universe. Not a path, but a corkscrew. Not a spectrum, but a gyre. Perhaps the stages of death, containing all forms of flight, constitute our rainbow." — Dorothea Lasky, American poet, born 1978