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Lesley Hazleton Quotes

I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

Lesley Hazleton
Asking Questions, Interesting, Perfect

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

Lesley Hazleton
Suffering, Accepted, Terror
Lesley Hazleton (1985). “The Right to Feel Bad”, Ballantine Books

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

Lesley Hazleton
Thinking, Paradox, Danger

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

Lesley Hazleton
Reality, Legends, Facts
Lesley Hazleton (2013). “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad”, p.14, Penguin

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

Lesley Hazleton
Perfect, Sound, May
Lesley Hazleton (1985). “The Right to Feel Bad”, Ballantine Books

We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing just as we need them in politics. We need that sense of adventure, of reaching wider, delving deeper, pushing further afield, whether that field be geographical, intellectual, political, personal, or all of these and more. Enough with decorousness. Let us risk preconceptions and treasured philosophies, bodies and souls. Let us be big and bawdy and full of courage. Let's go.

Lesley Hazleton
Philosophy, Writing, Adventure

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