"We have kept our children so busy with……" — Eda LeShan
"We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts ..."
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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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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 Activities Quotes
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one of 888 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
— Arnold Bennett
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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
— Vinoba Bhave
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is…
— Rachel Blanchard
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is…
— Andrea Bocelli
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An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional…
— Vince Cable
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