“By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.” HumansSelfReasonWholePassionBornImaginationHuman BeingsPleasureCommonSelf LoveAdvantageSafetySurrenderInnocentDependentGrantsBelongingSentimentsPlightInnocent Love Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.” WorldChildrenSelfMomentsHandsEyeEnergyGrowthListeningEarsIndividualityMusclesReachingUrgesReach OutVitalityInnateMoments Of LifeListening Ear Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender, raw, thin-skinned, poignantly vulnerable. Her entire sense of personal worth can be shattered by a frown. An innocuous clarification of facts can be heard as a monumental criticism.” SelfReasonFactsHeardCreaturesCriticismVulnerableAdolescenceHumiliationShatteredBrazenSelf CenterednessCenterednessSusceptibilityClarificationPersonal Worth Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.” SelfDreamMightValuesPassionImaginationYouthGloryIdealsPerfectionPursuitUrgesAdolescenceBoundlessAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionPersonalizedSelf Perfection Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.” WorldSaidRealSelfFactsMightValuesWishParentMoralTeacherAchieveCreaturesIdealsPassionateAuthenticityVulnerableRealisticReal WorldAdolescenceSeekersImpulsiveSelf AbsorbedAvidParents And Teachers Author:Louise J. Kaplan
