“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.” — 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 — and that… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
