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It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.Jean Toomer
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Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The topics we learn from our four core subjects during our childhood and adolescent stage of our lives help us to understand the norms of common knowledge and take pride of our citizenship.Saaif Alam
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If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still have opportunities to resume with your life by speaking up and seeking for assistance.Saaif Alam
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When you are preoccupied with a disturbing thought or feeling that is considered irrational and waste of time, you will reduce your time enjoying the pleasure of your life. The strategy to overcome your mental shortcomings is to participate in outdoor activities and socialize with others who have emphatic understanding about your feelings and thoughts.Saaif Alam
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She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.Bill Bryson
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Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.Harold Bloom
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The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.Harold Holzer
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They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.Charles Dickens
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A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.Philip Zaleski
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Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.Philip Zaleski
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She was too well-trained to panic.Steve Sheinkin
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The Mother Thing makes our world.Robert A. Heinlein
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More depended on the student than on the school.Robert A. Heinlein
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College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.Rick Perlstein
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One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.H.W. Brands
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Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.Andrew Zolli
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Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.John Ferling
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When you’re the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they’ve let you go.Unknown
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While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.Unknown
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Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.George F. Will
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Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?Unknown
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Graduates fared better if, during college, they did any one of these: developed a relationship with a mentor; took on a project that lasted a semester or more; did a job or internship directly connected to their chosen field; or became deeply involved in a campus organization or activity (as opposed to minimally involved in a range of things).Frank Bruni
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(He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.John Feinstein
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Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.Toni Morrison
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Nothing that remains static is truly ever alive. Nature does not abide idleness. All energy sources of the natural world and the cosmos are in a constant motion, they are in a perpetual state of fluctuation. All forms of living must make allowances for the seasons of change. The Earth itself is twirling through space, spinning on its axis analogous to a child’s top. The unpredictable forces of instability brought about by a combination of motion, change, and flux propels the miraculous dynamism of existence.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.Kilroy J. Oldster
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I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.Jim Bouton
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JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.David Pietrusza
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Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: "He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.David Pietrusza
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His level of experience is nearly transcendent.Davis Miller
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He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.Geraldine Brooks
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Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others.Unknown
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The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.Chris Matthews
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He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.Chris Matthews
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Moral action — humble and honest — is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.Ron Suskind
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Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.Jeffrey Toobin
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The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.Robert Dallek
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In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.Lynne Olson
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Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.Robert A. Heinlein
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He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.James Carl Nelson
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Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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In our formative years, every person begins creating a self that can keep him or her company through later stages in life. It requires concentrated effort to create self-hood. The task of creating a fully developed human being is an ongoing process, an open-ended assignment. The goal of self-hood is to evade slipping into a state of thoughtlessness, where we fail to take ownership of our thoughts, deeds, and lifestyle. .Kilroy J. Oldster
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The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation, ' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.' Lily, ' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.' But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lily's, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonas's had been called a bear. Here you are, Lily-billy, ' he said. 'I'll come help you remove your hair ribbons. .Lois Lowry
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Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manifestation of a desirable self. True personal transformation requires a person honestly to assess their inner spirituality and adopt a clear vision of who they want to be. An earnest person experiencing inner transformation of their values and belief system is apt to feel conflicted, confused, and disorientated. Change of self is displacement, disarticulation, and loss of self. Alteration of our self-image results in disrupting, dislocating, and modifying a person’s perspective of what is significant.Kilroy J. Oldster
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People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle. The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas .Kilroy J. Oldster
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We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every person’s supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of his or her intellectual, ethical, and spiritual attainment.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.Maureen Corrigan
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Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.Richard Brookhiser
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Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.Sherry Turkle
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To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.Jen Pollock Michel
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Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.Kilroy J. Oldster
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They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.Ransom Riggs
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In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.Charles Dickens
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It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.Jules Verne
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It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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To present is to take a stand and being responsible.Aayush Jain
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I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.Sara Dormon
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Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.Richard Rohr
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We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.Richard Rohr
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Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.Kilroy J. Oldster
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A person begins childhood with a mind that is essentially a blank slate — a tabula rasa — before receiving outside impressions. Early childhood experiences and perceptions begin the formulation of a state of conscious awareness, the infantile steps in forming a personality, developing social and emotional behavior, and acquiring practical and book knowledge. Childhood plays a critical role in forming our final version of a self-concept.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing’s existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise.Kilroy J. Oldster
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I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.Philip Zaleski
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King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.Troy Jackson
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With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we can remain stagnated in an infantile mental state. Without introspection, we foreclose ourselves from gaining the insight that allows us to navigate adulthood’s ceaseless demands.Kilroy J. Oldster
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It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. — MayaGirl Meets World
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I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.Pat Conroy
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The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that’s being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won’t approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We’ve no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.Poul Anderson
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Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.Alexis De Tocqueville
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In the context of today, this WAS heroism.John Howard Griffin
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He's taking the change well?" She asked. Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?Frank Herbert
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Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies — boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.H.W. Brands
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Considerable social science research has found that constant praise of children can backfire, because it so often consists of telling children how smart they are, not of praising children for the things they actually do. As a result, many children become protective of their image of being smart and are reluctant to take chances that might actually damage that image.Charles Murray
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What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotionJennifer Senior
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So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.Sol Luckman
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Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.Brooke Hauser
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He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.Plato
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Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.Tom Clancy
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Character is the main object of education.Mary Wooley
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.Plato
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Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.Harold Bloom
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The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.Unknown
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You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.James Carl Nelson
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If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind.Sherry Turkle
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He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.Geraldine Brooks
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We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.Sherry Turkle
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Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.Andrew Zolli
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He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.Barbara W. Tuchman
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Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.Kwame Anthony Appiah
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After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.Unknown