Sex is something we are, not something we do. Eda LeShan More Quotes by Eda LeShan More Quotes From Eda LeShan 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 advantagegenerationseffort We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children? Eda LeShan wantbabychildren 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 second-chancegrandparentmeaningful ... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation! Eda LeShan operationsmen 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 grandmaattituderetirement 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 purposefeelingsadventure 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 prioritiesgovernmentchildren 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 central-parkhorsehusband 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 parentchildrenworld 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 demandmarriagewonderful 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 agemissingbook If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up. Eda LeShan parentifshelping When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others. Eda LeShan
