"One can develop new capacities and strengths with……" — Eda LeShan
"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."
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Eda LeShan
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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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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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If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want…
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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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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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