Adolescence Quotes

• Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

  Mary Pipher

  Childhood, Energy, Borders

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• Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

  Haim Ginott

  Stress, Growth, Storm

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• Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Powerful, Struggle, Past

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

  Alden Nowlan

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Wise

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• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Taken, Luxury

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• One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

  Terri E Apter

  Self, Goal, Decision

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• Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Self, Pressure

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.16, Penguin

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• Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Important, May, Speak

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.91, Profile Books

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• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

  Earl Wilson

  Inspirational, Teenager, Ice And Snow

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• Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Responsibility, Maturity

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, People, Transition

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• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Teenager, Birth, Born

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

  Jeanne Elium

  Struggle, Unique, Groups

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.347, Celestial Arts

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• Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

  Virginia Satir

  Inspirational, Teenage, People

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• Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Attention, Helping, Miserable

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• Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Negative, Connotation, Notion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

  Bill Vaughan

  Maturity, Psychological, Permission

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• I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

  Uma Thurman

  Inspirational, Pain, Teenager

  "Interview with Laura Yorke". "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.

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• Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

  Jodie Foster

  Children, Actors, Tough

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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Break Up, Humorous, Kids

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• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Female, Intense, Periods

  "Hysteria and the Teenage Girl" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Struggle, Soul, Impulse

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.365, Read Books Ltd

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• You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Children

  1962 In the Saturday Review, Fall issue.

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• If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Saint, World, Filled

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.426, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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