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Erik Erikson, Developmental psychologist who mapped the eight stages of life, each with its own crisis and its own, gets quoted everywhere and sourced almost nowhere. The 5 quotes below are different: each one is checked word for word against the cited work, starting with Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society, not copied from aggregator sites that pass misattributions along. The source is named under every line, so you can trace each quote back to the page it came from.
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On the discomfort of not knowing who you are yet:
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.Erik Erikson, Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society
On facing mortality without passing your fear onto others:
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.Erik Erikson, Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society
On wanting to leave something behind, not just get by:
I am what survives me.Erik Erikson, Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society
On the self doubt after a public failure:
Doubt is the brother of shame.Erik Erikson, Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society
On feeling shaped by the era you happened to be born into:
An individual life is the accidental coincidence of but one life cycle with but one segment of history.Erik Erikson, Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society