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It is this intensity of
perception, together with integrity of being, that can make of human
society a living, thriving, truly loving, joyously full and exuberant organism,
rather than a cold, mechanical, empty theoretical concept. That is the magic of transformation, and that is the potential of adolescence. |
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As a result of all his education from everything he sees and hears around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be healthy is to disgorge it all.
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In adolescence we are in many ways
like empty but organic receptacles,
fully formed
though still growing,
waiting to be filled.
And like receptacles we are capable
at that stage
of life of receiving with all our being,
becoming one with what is within us.
Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age.
The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
"When childhood dies, it's corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay" Brian Aldiss
You Americans do not rear children, you Incite them, you give them food and shelter and applause.
Never have ideas about children -- and never have ideas for them.
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon come back.
Nothing would induce me to go over my childhood days again. I thought I was happy because my mother said I was.
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Apache song sung at the "womanhood" rite marking puberty |
