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Erik Erikson Quotes about Life

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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik Erikson
Life, Hope, Insightful
"Insight and Responsibility".

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

Erik Erikson
Life, Death, Children
Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

Erik Erikson
Life, Being Strong, Responsibility

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