Best youth & adolescence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.”

Men Age Growth Middle Stage Youth Adolescence Middle Ages Corresponding Boyhood

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”

Years Age Parent Example Youth Periods Adolescence Rapids Rapid Change

Author:Al Bernstein

“This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives.”

People Made Young Violence Youth Healthy Research Direct Appropriate Adolescence Intervention Constructive Let Down

Author:David Satcher

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

“Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.”

Imagination Youth Fancy Adolescence

Book:The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

“Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.”

“Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.”

People Want Trying Looks Different Use Young Youth Adolescence Peas Peas In A Pod

Book:Past imperfect

Source: Past imperfect

“Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.”

Years Fighting Asks Kindness Greater Youth Battle Privilege Adolescence Mistaken Shields

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“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.”

Self Dream Might Values Passion Imagination Youth Glory Ideals Perfection Pursuit Urges Adolescence Boundless Absorption Self Absorption Personalized Self Perfection

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”

Ifs Humans Age Childhood Century Youth Particular Periods Human Life Division Adolescence Privileged

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.”

Energy Levels Fire Rocks Youth Type Demand Highest Burning Adolescence Energy Levels

Author:Jim Morrison

“I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.”

Thinking World Littles Book Sometimes Home Known Boys Saws Fields Youth Speech Ancient Intellect Spending Realms Visible Regions Adolescence Slander Grove Roaming

Book:The Road to Madness

Source: The Road to Madness

“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.”

Youth Late Convinced Too Late Adolescence

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting”

Children Age Fighting Three Sleep Youth Twenties Stealing Adolescence Sixteen Wenches

Author:William Shakespeare

“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.”

Enough Light Steps Fronts Youth Adolescence

Book:The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

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