maturation

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

To abandon the child __ithin_ means that the adult __ithout_ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

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.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every person__ supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of his or her intellectual, ethical, and spiritual attainment.

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__ manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person__ 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__ level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego__ defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person__ obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person__ life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person__ conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas

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__ perspective of what is significant.

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.

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.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

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.

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.