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Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness
with which one must look and listen,
record in astonishment
and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
- Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Existence needs you.
Without you, something will be missing
in existence and nobody can replace it.
Thats what gives you dignity,
that the whole existence will miss you.
- Osho
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Nobody ever gets to see what could have been.
- the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
- Elizabeth Warren
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes
Have you ever hugged a tree?
Hug a tree, and one day you will come to know
that it is not only that
you have hugged the tree
but that the tree also responds,
the tree also hugs you.
- Osho
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
I unconditionally forgive myself for everything
that I have ever done, said, or thought
that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have compassion for everyone who has ever
been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I accept that no one else has ever been to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the salve that heals
the wounds of unkind words and acts.
Forgive everyone for every hurt you have ever received -
for your own sake, that you may live in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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