249 Quotes About Maturation

When adults ignore their children’s feelings, children come to believe their feelings are not important. When we repeatedly threaten or punish children for a display of emotion, children learn that emotions are dangerous things that need to be held inside and hidden—an invitation to later depression or rage.

Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

The author's differing experience of school geography as a faculty member going from parking lot to parking lot and to locations centered around HER office and her experience of the more scattered life of a student speaks to a larger truth. As adults, we are used to following the same routine and look romantically on anything different.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.