Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly … - Erik Erikson

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He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?'. . . and then he opened his eyes.

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.

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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.

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

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

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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

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

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