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

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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

Hope

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

- Erik H. Erikson

Self-awareness

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

- Erik H. Erikson

Self-awareness

"Doubt is the brother of shame."

- Erik H. Erikson

Self-awareness

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

- Erik H. Erikson

Personal Growth

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage