“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.” LittlesSelfLife IsExistenceWonderClassRolesModernMiddleConditionsIdentitySourceReturnDegreesMajorsCrisisSakeDefinedRevelationsMiddle ClassDaily LifeUrbanTrue SelfAcheStressfulIdentity CrisisRole PlayingSelf Revelation Author:E. O. Wilson
“Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.” Life IsInfiniteRevelationsBreastsWoeWorth LivingInfinite Hope Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli