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Will, Therefore, Is The Unbroken Determination To Exercise Free Choice As Well As Self-restraint, In Spite Of The Unavoidable Experience Of Shame And Doubt In Infancy.

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.

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. 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.

If Life Is To Be Sustained, Hope Must Remain.