Excellence in life seems to me to be the way in which each human being makes the most of the adventure of living and becomes most truly and deeply himself, fulfilling his own nature in the context of a good… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive. — 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
