The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
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.
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.
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
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.
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.
I am what survives of me.
A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
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.
We are what we love.
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
Doubt is the brother of shame.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
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.
The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.
