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.

Erik Erikson
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  5. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Unknown

More Quotes By Erik Erikson
  1. It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that – bring them up – and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself – finding, through experience, your own words,...

  2. 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.

  3. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

  4. Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.

  5. 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.

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