Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immor...tal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other peopl...e has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no other questions than these, Half squashed in mud, emerging out of the moment... We all live, learning to like it. No sonnet On this furthest strip of land....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That which is given to see At any moment is the residue, shadowed... In gold or emerging into the clear bluish haze Of uncertainty. We come back to ourselves Through the rubbish of cloud and tree-spattered pavement. These days stand like vapor under the trees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aging process is a part of most of our lives, and it remains one we try to ignore until it seems to pounce upon us. We evade a...ll its signals. We stay blandly unprepared for some of its obnoxious effects, even though we have coped with the cracked voices and puzzling glands of our emerging natures, and have been guided no matter how clumsily through budding love-pains, morning sickness, and hot flashes. We do what our mentors teach us to do, but few of us acknowledge that the last years of our lives, if we can survive to live them out, are as physically predictable as infancy's or those of our full flowering. This seems impossible, but it is true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your children are not here to fill the void left by marital dissatisfaction and disengagement. They are not to be utilized as a su...bstitute for adult-adult intimacy. They are not in this world in order to satisfy a wife's or a husband's need for love, closeness or a sense of worth. A child's task is to fully develop his/her emerging self. When we place our children in the position of satisfying our needs, we rob them of their childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that t...hey lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past,... Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »