There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure.… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up —… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering… — Erik Erikson Copy Share
Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. — Erik Erikson Copy Share
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is… — Erik Erikson Copy Share
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson Copy Share
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.” — Erik Erikson Copy Share
“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that… — Erik Erikson Copy Share
Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and… — Erik Erikson Copy Share
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt… — Erik Erikson Copy Share
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most… — Erik Erikson Copy Share
He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to… — Erik Erikson Copy Share
