Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. -Erik Erikson Fear
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. -Erik Erikson Age
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. -Erik Erikson Wisdom
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. -Erik Erikson Family
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others. -Erik Erikson Patience
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. -Erik Erikson Failure
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. -Erik Erikson Death
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all. -Erik Erikson Hope
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind. -Erik Erikson Knowledge
