#adolescent

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#aiming #being #by the time #fifty #i

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#consisted #convinced #day #france #gigantic

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

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#always #anorexia #available #breakdown #felt

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#empty #feel #felt #i #i feel