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… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace,… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share
Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal. — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
The two words that I've arrived at to describe what we all need to feel about ourselves, children and adults, in order to perceive… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
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.… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
