Eda J Leshan Quotes

#1. When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else. (Death of a Doxie)

Rex Stout

#2. Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Robert Wyatt

#3. The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

Norman Cousins

#4. 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.

Eda LeShan

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

Eda LeShan

#6. 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.

Eda LeShan

#7. I tried to take some pride where I could. If I was going to be a dropout loser, then I was going to be the best dropout loser.

Lish McBride

#8. 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.

Eda LeShan

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

Eda LeShan

#10. 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.

Eda LeShan

#11. For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.

Trisha Yearwood

#12. 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 ...

Eda LeShan

#13. Sex is something we are, not something we do.

Eda LeShan

#14. I pray that I may strengthen my inner life, so that I may find serenity. I pray that my soul may be restored in quietness and peace.

Anonymous

#15. Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

Bob Dylan

#16. We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

Craig Groeschel

#17. My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

Scott Ian

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

Eda LeShan

#19. A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

Eda LeShan

#20. No man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

Eda LeShan

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

Eda LeShan

#22. 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.

Eda LeShan

#23. 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.

Eda LeShan

#24. 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.

Eda LeShan

#25. 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.

Eda LeShan

#26. When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.

Eda J. LeShan

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

Eda LeShan

#28. I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

Suze Orman

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

Eda LeShan

#30. 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.

Eda LeShan

#31. The things you have done for me - to help me, support me, surprise me, and make me happy - go above and beyond what any person deserves. You are all I need. I love you and I like you.

Amy Poehler

#32. No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

Al Davis

#33. 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!

Eda LeShan

#34. Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

Eda LeShan

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

Eda LeShan

#36. 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.

Eda LeShan

#37. I have no doubt that Jesus would actually practice the neighborliness he preached rather than following our example of religious supremacy, hostility, fear, isolation, misinformation, exclusion, or demonization.

Brian D. McLaren