Joan Erikson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.
-- Joan Erikson

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No matter how hard you dance, not everyone will clap
-- Joan Erikson

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Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
-- Joan Erikson

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Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.
-- Joan Erikson

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Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
-- Joan Erikson

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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
Life is like an analogy.
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.
Asking, â€˜If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?â€™ is like asking, â€˜If there is no master, whose slave will I be?â€™ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

Joan Erikson famous quotes

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