Adolescents Need Freedom To Choose, But Not

These Same Experiences Make Of The Sequence Of Life Cycles A Generational Cycle, Irrevocably Binding Each Generation To Those That Gave It Life And To Those For Whose Life It Is Responsible. Thus, Reconciling Lifelong Generativity And Stagnation Involves The Elder In A Review Of His Or Her Own Years Of Active Responsibility For Nurturing The Next Generations, And Also In An Integration Of Earlier-life Experiences Of Caring And Of Self-concern In Relation To Previous Generations.

Play Is The Most Natural Method Of Self-healing That Childhood Affords.

In The Evaluation Of The Dominant Moods Of Any Historical Period It Is Important To Hold Fast To The Fact That There Are Always Islands Of Self-sufficient Order — On Farms And In Castles, In Homes, Studies, And Cloisters — Where Sensible People Manage To Live Relatively Lusty And Decent Lives: As Moral As They Must Be, As Free As They May Be, And As Masterly As They Can Be. If We Only Knew It, This Elusive Arrangement Is Happiness.

Hope Is Both The Earliest And The Most Indispensable Virtue Inherent In The State Of Being Alive. Others Have Called This Deepest Quality Confidence, And I Have Referred To Trust As The Earliest Positive Psychosocial Attitude, But If Life Is To Be Sustained Hope Must Remain, Even Where Confidence Is Wounded, Trust Impaired.

You Can Actively Flee, Then, And You Can Actively Stay Put.