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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"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."

- Erik H. Erikson

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

- Erik H. Erikson

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

- Erik H. Erikson

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"Doubt is the brother of shame."

- Erik H. Erikson

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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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- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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