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