Adolescents Need Freedom To Choose,

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.

The Sense Of Identity Provides The Ability To Experience One's Self As Something That Has Continuity And Sameness, And To Act Accordingly.

If Life Is To Be Sustained, Hope Must Remain.

Mans True Taproots Are Nourished In The Sequence Of Generations, And He Loses His Taproots In Disrupted Developmental Time, Not In Abandoned Localities.

Someday, Maybe, There Will Exist A Well-informed, Well Considered And Yet Fervent Public Conviction That The Most Deadly Of All Possible Sins Is The Mutilation Of A Child’s Spirit; For Such Mutilation Undercuts The Life Principle Of Trust, Without Which Every Human Act, May It Feel Ever So Good And Seem Ever So Right Is Prone To Perversion By Destructive Forms Of Conscientiousness.