If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it… — 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
