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In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

From Erik Erikson

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

From Erik Erikson

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

From Erik Erikson

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

From Erik Erikson

We are what we love.

From Erik Erikson

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

From Erik Erikson

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

From Erik Erikson

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

From Erik Erikson

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

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