“ Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. ”
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
~ Louise J. Kaplan
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
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.
