Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.
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.
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one’s self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
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.
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.
Personality, too, is destiny.
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.