Top 38 Eda Leshan Quotes

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

Eda LeShan

Eda Leshan Quotes #87278
#2. Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

Eda LeShan

Eda Leshan Quotes #213123
#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.

Eda LeShan

Eda Leshan Quotes #221745
#4. Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Eda Leshan Quotes #259548
#5. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #318539
#6. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #326228
#7. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #334376
#8. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #363435
#9. When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

Eda LeShan

Eda Leshan Quotes #397861
#10. No man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

Eda LeShan

Eda Leshan Quotes #415437
#11. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #425507
#12. In 1997 Clinton pushed to double the number of children being adopted by the year of 2002 (Altstein et al. 11). He said that bonuses would be given to the state of $4000.00 for every child adopted over the desired quota and another $2000.00 for any child that has disabilities or older children

Keelie Smith

Eda Leshan Quotes #576436
#13. What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

Thomas Mann

Eda Leshan Quotes #577247
#14. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #624366
#15. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #699730
#16. All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

Eda LeShan

Eda Leshan Quotes #706576
#17. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #706930
#18. Lie #3

I don't care what they think of me.

Robin Talley

Eda Leshan Quotes #801281
#19. Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

Katherine Harris

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#20. Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

Theda Skocpol

Eda Leshan Quotes #1033251
#21. If you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.

Brendan Halpin

Eda Leshan Quotes #1046555
#22. He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

Edgar Lee Masters

Eda Leshan Quotes #1052205
#23. It is pointless for a woodcutter to shed tears for the trees he'd chopped all his life. He can't bring them back but he can plant new ones and in doing so he would have compensated and redeemed himself of his wrongdoings.

Chirag Tulsiani

Eda Leshan Quotes #1053331
#24. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #1056130
#25. Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

Eda LeShan

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#26. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #1089849
#27. New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.

Timothy Levitch

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#28. 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

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#29. Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

Elizabeth Smart

Eda Leshan Quotes #1320159
#30. Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

Eda LeShan

Eda Leshan Quotes #1388785
#31. Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

Stephen Daldry

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#32. No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

J.P.R. Williams

Eda Leshan Quotes #1513959
#33. 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

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#34. I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

Tom Ford

Eda Leshan Quotes #1569747
#35. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #1604179
#36. Sex is something we are, not something we do.

Eda LeShan

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#37. 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

Eda Leshan Quotes #1805959
#38. A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

Eda LeShan

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