I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.
Interpretation
Adolescence is crucial for developing self-esteem and interpersonal skills, marking the transition to adulthood.
This quote emphasizes the importance of adolescence as a developmental stage where individuals build a strong sense of self and learn essential life skills. It suggests that reaching adulthood comes with responsibilities such as intimacy, effective communication, accountability, and risk-taking, and highlights that any uncompleted personal development during adolescence will need to be addressed in adulthood.
In practice
In a workshop on personal growth, this quote could inspire discussions on the transition to adulthood.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
The message sent is not always the message received.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.
I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
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