Erik Erikson - Childhood and Society (1950)

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

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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

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This sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

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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.

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The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

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There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

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