"If I have learned anything in long years……" — Eda LeShan
"If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself."
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16 Quotes by Eda LeShan
Eda LeShan has 16 quotes on this site.
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A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
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Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression…
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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…
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A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to…
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Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting…
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One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain…
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A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is…
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Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being…
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When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.
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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation…
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We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a…
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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…
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