13 Quotes by Jean Liedloff

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

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.

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.

A culture which requires people to live in a way for which their evolution has not prepared them, which does not fulfill their innate expectations and therefore pushes their adaptability beyond its limits, is bound to damage their personalities.