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One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- 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
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
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
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What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- 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
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
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- 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
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- 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 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
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- 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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
We are all one - the web of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
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