The Sense Of Identity Provides

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.

The Richest And Fullest Lives Attempt To Achieve An Inner Balance Between Three Realms: Work, Love And Play.

You've Got To Learn To Accept The Law Of Life, And Face The Fact That We Disintegrate Slowly.

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, Your Own Way Of Putting Them Together. You Have To Learn Where You Stand, And Make Sure Your Kids Learn [where You Stand], Understand Why, And Soon, You Hope, They'll Be Standing There Beside You, With You.

The Growing Child Must Derive A Vitalizing Sense Of Reality From The Awareness That His Individual Way Of Mastering Experience (his Ego Synthesis) Is A Successful Variant Of A Group Identity And Is In Accord With Its Space-time And Life Plan.