Eda LeShan Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sex is something we are, not something we do.

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

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You’re probably doing things you don’t want to do.

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.

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.

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.