I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.
Interpretation
Adolescence is crucial for developing self-esteem and interpersonal skills, marking the transition to adulthood.
This quote emphasizes the importance of adolescence as a developmental stage where individuals build a strong sense of self and learn essential life skills. It suggests that reaching adulthood comes with responsibilities such as intimacy, effective communication, accountability, and risk-taking, and highlights that any uncompleted personal development during adolescence will need to be addressed in adulthood.
In practice
In a workshop on personal growth, this quote could inspire discussions on the transition to adulthood.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
The message sent is not always the message received.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.
One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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