One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
