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

Psychologists
Erik Erikson
German-American psychologist (1902-1994) who coined identity crisis and mapped life as eight psychosocial stages. Trained by Anna Freud, he taught at Harvard without a degree and won a Pulitzer for Gandhi's Truth.
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Erik Erikson's Other Quotes
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive.
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