Frederick Leboyer Quotes

#1. Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

Frederick Leboyer

#2. Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Meryl Streep

#3. Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,

Frederick Leboyer

#4. The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Stephen Sondheim

#5. Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

Frederick Leboyer

#6. Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do.

Frederick Leboyer

#7. This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

Frederick Leboyer

#8. The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Frederick Leboyer

#9. Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Frederick Leboyer

#10. It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate.
Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

Frederick Leboyer

#11. Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Estella M. Chung

#12. This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

Frederick Leboyer

#13. does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. Now,

J.K. Rowling

#14. I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Martha Stewart

#15. The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

Simone Weil

#16. Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

Andrew Loomis

#18. These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

Frederick Leboyer

#19. An effort disbursed to become like a god takes us closer towards finding him.

Deepak Vidyarthi

#20. Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Frederick Leboyer