Eda LeShan

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth…

— Eda LeShan

We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of…

— Eda LeShan

It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when…

— Eda LeShan

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

— Eda LeShan

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we…

— Eda LeShan

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

— Eda LeShan

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

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If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is…

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Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

— Eda LeShan

Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to…

— Eda LeShan

If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be…

— Eda LeShan

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters…

— Eda LeShan

Sex is something we are, not something we do.

— Eda LeShan

Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole…

— Eda LeShan

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

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Excellence in life seems to me to be the way in which each human being makes the most of the adventure of…

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I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering…

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We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were…

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If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

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Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to…

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It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine…

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When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

— Eda LeShan

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

— Eda LeShan

A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down…

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Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The…

— Eda LeShan