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Erik Erikson Quotes

Erik Erikson quotes

American Psychologist June 15, 1902 – May 12, 1994

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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
Erik Erikson quote: "The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner..."
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. Erik Erikson
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 every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness. Erik Erikson
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson quote: "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have..."
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Erik Erikson
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
It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that? bring them up? and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself? finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you. Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson quote: "Doubt is the brother of shame."
Doubt is the brother of shame. Erik Erikson

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