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Erik Erikson Quotes

American - Psychologist | June 15, 1902 - May 12, 1994

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Identity Feeling Jungle Alive Human

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Patience Yourself You Know Yourself

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

Children Creativity Child Free You

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

Life Better Learn Need Without Us

I am what survives of me.

I Am Me Am Survives

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Family Baby Control Him Up Bring

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

Leader Child Mind Small Will Elite

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

Child Parents Deep Doing Meaning

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Life Fear Integrity Children Death

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Life Law Face Learn You Accept

We are what we love.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

Future Live Thinking Seeing Way Us

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