“A creative man has no choice. He may come across his supreme task almost accidentally. But once the issue is joined, his task proves to be at the same time intimately related to his most personal conflicts, to his superior selective perception, and to the stubbornness of his one-way will; he must court sickness, failure, or insanity in order to test the alternative whether the established world will crush him, or whether he will disestablish a sector of this world's outworn fundaments and make place for a new one.”
"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
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination