The Essays of Lazy Leonard
Convenience Chibatamoto
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An edition of The Essays of Lazy Leonard (2021)

The Essays of Lazy Leonard

This book is about a day in the life of Lazy Leonard, a slothful young man who one day decides to take a walk around his city, meeting accomplished people he believed were wiser than him, asking them questions.

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This was the happiest person Leo had seen all morning. The guy smiled as he happily tugged on the strings of his instrument, joyously singing a melody in a foreign language. Leo stood for a while, digesting in admiration, a combination of melodies that sailed into his tiny ears. “Where does this guy get all this energy?”, he thought to himself. And so he decided to listen briefly to one of his melodies, which translated to something like:

People always make history when they look less at it. History is always written when it’s no longer much read.
History is read with reason, but it’s created with imagination.

If you limit your dreams, your energy will further limit you.

Great people focus on where they are going, without losing the lesson of where they are coming from. Losers complain about where they are coming from and forget where they are going.

There is a great difference between opening our eyelids and opening our eyes.

Never be “realistic” unless and until you have your own, personal definition of the word.

They failed to walk. That’s why they say you can’t fly.

Imagination always beats reason, and dreams always beat logic.

Good things take wisdom, not time. If it takes you time to acquire wisdom, then so
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This excerpt is from Chapter 6, which describes the interaction that Leonard had with the guitarist, a happy and joyful encounter.

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