Jean Liedloff Quotes

#1. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

Jean Liedloff

#2. Just because you're looking for the one, doesn't mean that you have to subject yourself to every single lousy date you're set on.

Claire Contreras

#3. if the system is 99 percent accurate, 22,284 innocent persons are in prison. If the system is 99.9 percent accurate, that is still 2,228 innocent people in prison.

Jim Petro

#4. It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they're all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.

Jean Liedloff

#5. Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

Jean Liedloff

#6. As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me
and this is in retrospect
that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.

Jean Liedloff

#7. I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Jean Liedloff

#8. As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

Shaquille O'Neal

#9. To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

Paul Feig

#10. We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?

Kate Langley Bosher

#11. When it comes to marriage true spirituality of believer comes out .

Praveen Vadla

#12. Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

Jean Liedloff

#13. A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

Jean Liedloff

#14. The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it ... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

Dean Wareham

#15. Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

Jean Liedloff

#16. I am in blood so deep that to wade no further is as tedious as to go over

William Shakespeare

#17. the commencement speaker. The billionaire founder

Karen Blumenthal

#18. Don't give up or give in...just give it all you got. Do whatever it takes to make your life happen!

Timothy Pina

#19. Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

Jean Liedloff

#20. I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

Leonard Ravenhill

#21. Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Ian McKellen

#22. Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

Jean Liedloff

#23. Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

Bill Crawford