Eda LeShan famous quotes

04-25-2025

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 LeShan

#Single #Mean #Bears
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

#Children #Grief #Long
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
-- Eda LeShan

#Inspirational #Dream #Baby
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

#Years #Long #Needs
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

#Dream #Baby #Spring
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

#Adventure #Feelings #Purpose
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.
-- Eda LeShan

#Horse #Husband #Years
Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.
-- Eda LeShan

#Worry #Anxiety #Feelings
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

#Children #People #Silence
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.
-- Eda LeShan

#Effort #Generations #Advantage
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.
-- Eda LeShan

#People #Care
Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.
-- Eda LeShan

#Children #Believe #Doctrine
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

#Retirement #Attitude #Grandparent
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

#Acceptance #Self #Perspective
Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.
-- Eda LeShan

#Love #Couple #Pain
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.
-- Eda LeShan

#Book #Missing #Age

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