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title: "1 Truly Meet Quotes By Erik Erikson"
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> [To truly meet others with whom to share a](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/to-truly-meet-others-with-whom-to-share-a/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0f/erik-erikson-12932_quote_to-truly-meet-others-with-whom-to-share_1849495.jpg)

## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/you-see-a-child-play-and-it-is-so-close-to-seeing-an-artist-paint-for/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/mans-true-taproots-are-nourished-in-the-sequence-of-generations-and/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/the-growing-child-must-derive-a-vitalizing-sense-of-reality-from-the/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [Do not mistake a child for his symptom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/do-not-mistake-a-child-for-his-symptom/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [Doubt is the brother of shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/doubt-is-the-brother-of-shame/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/the-psychoanalytic-method-is-essentially-a-historical-method/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/we-cannot-leave-history-entirely-to-nonclinical-observers-and-to/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/the-richest-and-fullest-lives-attempt-to-achieve-an-inner-balance/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/it-s-a-long-haul-bringing-up-our-children-to-be-good-you-have-to-keep/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [I am what survives of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/i-am-what-survives-of-me/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/let-us-face-it-deep-down-nobody-in-his-right-mind-can-visualize-his/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/will-therefore-is-the-unbroken-determination-to-exercise-free-choice/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/men-have-always-shown-a-dim-knowledge-of-their-better-potentialities/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [Personality, too, is destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/personality-too-is-destiny/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

> [He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-erikson/he-who-is-ashamed-would-like-to-force-the-world-not-to-look-at-him/)

[Erik Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-erikson/)

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