“We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.” ThinkingWantFeelsLooksBookSoulStoriesWalksGreaterWrittenStreetsAdultsDepthForgottenTrackCreditTeenagerRescueUnderestimatePerilToddler Author:Markus Zusak
“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.” WorldFeelsChildrenLittlesCharacterProcessGreaterChildhoodIntellectualModelsConsciousAdultsBiggerFamiliarSurroundingsMemories Dreams ReflectionsMiniatures Author:Carl Jung
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.” SelfLife IsGivenEasyStepsGreaterMagicChildhoodDevelopmentLetting GoIllusionAdultsTasksSafetyCastsTechniqueFamiliarPassagesExpansionGiven UpSense Of SelfLife Is Not Easy Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenLittlesHas BeensFactsFormYoungWishGreaterTroubleChildhoodMaterialsAdultsFilledDisappointmentPrioritiesFrustrationThink Of YouDaydreamingYoung Children Book:Freud's Vienna and Other Essays Source: Freud's Vienna and Other Essays
“My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.” WritingYearsBookGreaterSonHighestDaughterAdultsCome UpManageCuriousComplimentSatisfying Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.” WellsLooksMayChildrenParentMistakeGreaterHonestyConversationDegreesAdultsBurdenGetting OldGetting OlderAdult ChildrenGrown Children Author:Wendy Lustbader
“Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater effect on us than our own fathers. Perhaps an adult that we wanted to become like, or someone with such a strong presence that even now, they remain in our hearts - someone who might be referred to as a "father of choice."” PeopleHeartHas BeensMightWantedPastChoicesFoundFatherStrongGreaterEffectsEventsAdultsDigging Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.” CareTodayLyingParentGreaterCostAdultsBurdenAutismIntervention Author:Jenny McCarthy
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsRealEndsFacesDiesEnergyBornForgetKnow HowGreaterFailingStupidBrokenShapesLosingHigh SchoolAdultsSizeScaredTeenagerLive LifeManifestationHopelessTeensTeenageInvincibleAlaskaSlyLooking For Alaska BookLabyrinth Looking For AlaskaPudgeTeenage Life Book:Looking for Alaska Source: Looking for Alaska