#adolescent

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#adolescent #assert #find #must #order

You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#anger

We live in an adolescent society, Neverland, where never growing up seems more the norm than the exception. Little boys wearing expensive suits and adult bodies should not be allowed to run big corporations. They shouldn’t be allowed to run governments, armies, religions, small businesses and charities either and just quietly, they make pretty shabby husbands and fathers too. Mankind has become Pankind and whilst “lost boys” abound, there is also an alarming increase in the number of “lost girls. ↗

— Daniel Prokop

#emotional-intelligence #growing-up #humor #inspirational #rites-of-passage

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#adolescent #character #gas #his #installment

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#detox #facility #first #get #got

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#career #children #dynamic #early #gave

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#adventure #am #dream #i #i am

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beatnik #poetic #poetry #prose #confusion

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#adolescent #embarrassing #more #nothing #parent