Top 25 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. Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,
Frederick Leboyer
#3. Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.
Pearl S. Buck
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
Frederick Leboyer
#7. The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.
Frederick Leboyer
#8. It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
Dore Ashton
#9. I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
Jill Abramson
#10. I want to feel good more than I want to check accomplishments off my list.
Danielle LaPorte
#12. Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
Victor Hugo
#13. 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
#14. Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
Frederick Leboyer
#15. I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.
Anne Roiphe
#16. This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
Frederick Leboyer
#17. Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.
Stephen King
#18. Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.
Jamie Lawson
#20. These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
Frederick Leboyer
#21. Listen, I don't care if you're Voldemort under that thing. We don't sell livestock. Period.
Allison Pang
#22. Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#23. We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control
we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#24. Hitler was "someone seduced by himself," someone who was so inseparable from his words "that a measure of authenticity flowed over the audience even when he was telling obvious lies.
Volker Ullrich
#25. The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.
Deepak Chopra
