Top 23 Eda LeShan Quotes
#1. If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.
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#2. Every time a child is born, we have another chance.
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#3. The highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.
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#4. Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
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#5. 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 life with other people.
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#6. It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections ... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.
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#7. When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.
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#8. No man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!
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#9. Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.
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#10. If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!
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#11. Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".
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#12. All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.
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#13. A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
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#14. 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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#15. Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.
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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#18. Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.
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#19. A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.
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#20. 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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#21. Sex is something we are, not something we do.
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#22. Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
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#23. A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
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