In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
The greatest gift you can give to others is the gift of your true self.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence.
One of the great tasks of life is to learn how to behave oneself.
It is human to have a long childhood; it is civilized to have an even longer childhood.
A man’s failure is his own responsibility.
Trust is established when you give those who are worthy of trust the chance to be trustworthy.
A sense of worthiness springs from the sense that one is accepted by peers and honors oneself.
The child’s development follows a path of successive stages of independence.
What we learn through experience depends on the kind of philosophy we carry with us.
It’s a wise parent who understands that every day is a new beginning.
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure.
Erik Erikson Quotes part 2
A child does not separate itself from the negative mother complex by destroying the latter, but by freeing itself from the mother’s behavior.
The greatest gift that we can give to our children is to believe in them.
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Respect for life and self-worth lead to true mutual respect.
The more you work, the more you live.
Ultimately, we cannot learn to be whole until we can be true to ourselves.
The task of becoming is always ongoing.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.
The good life is not something you get, but something you create.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Guilt is often the signal that we are out of integrity with ourselves.
The wisest person is not the one who has the most answers, but the one who has the most questions.
Every stage of life has its own challenges, and it takes courage to embrace them.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
It is a sociological fact that the one who works for love of work is always competitive.
A good society is one that nurtures the body and the spirit.
The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet
One’s existence has value and meaning when it is shared with others.
When history is not history, our history is not our history.
The ego is not master in its own house.
One must confront the anxiety of meaninglessness.
One does not become complete by eradicating imperfections, but by learning to live with them.
It is impossible to escape sorrow for as long as a person continues as the being he or she is.
Commitment is the foundation upon which the foundations of identity are laid.
The freedom to be yourself is not a guarantee that you will like who you are.
The greatest strength is the ability to be self-critical without losing self-esteem.
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