Eda LeShan Quotes - Page 2

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• 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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  Good Life, Adventure, People

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• 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

  Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”

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

  Eda LeShan

  Parent, Helping, Ifs

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• 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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  Children, Parent, World

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• 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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  Marriage, Demand, Wonderful

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• We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

  Eda LeShan

  Baby, Children, Want

  Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”

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• 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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  Retirement, Attitude, Grandma

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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 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.

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  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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