Erik Erikson Quotes

We all need each other.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

No one person is an island.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

Men exist for the sake of one another.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

All we have is us. Our only hope of survival is each other.

When people believe they need each other, they cooperate.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

The thing we need most is each other.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.