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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

Margaret Mead

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEAD

Breathe Effort Love
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
MARGARET MEAD

Experience Leisure Reflection Time
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
MARGARET MEAD

Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
MARGARET MEAD

Genuine Group Position Relation Society
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
MARGARET MEAD

Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
MARGARET MEAD

Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Change People Small Thinking World
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEAD

Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
MARGARET MEAD

Creative Force Woman Zeal
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
MARGARET MEAD

Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD

Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
MARGARET MEAD

Discover Philosophy Water
Nobody has ever before 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

Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
MARGARET MEAD

Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Care Change People Power

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