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Hope Is The Enduring Belief In The Attainability Of Fervent Wishes, In Spite Of The Dark Urges And Rages Which Mark The Beginning Of Existence. Hope Is The Ontogenetic Basis Of Faith, And Is Nourished By The Adult Faith Which Pervades Patterns Of Care.

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.

The Fact That Human Conscience Remains Partially Infantile Throughout Life Is The Core Of Human Tragedy.

Doubt Is The Brother Of Shame.

If One Sees The Personality Not As An Apparatus That Is Essentially Constructed By The Time Childhood Is Over, But As Always In Its Essence Developing, Then Life At 25 Or 30 Or At The Gateway To Middle Age Will Stimulate Its Own Intrigue, Surprise, And Exhilaration Of Discovery.