Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth — that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable? —Vera Brittain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The difficulty between parents and adolescents is not always caused by the fact that parents fail to remember what growing up was like, but that they do. —Marcelene Cox More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adolescence is a modern invention, a time before the onset of responsibility. During this moratorium the not-yet-adult is allowed to rebel, to play, and to experiment. In primitive cultures the son was cast in the same mold as the father. The sacred ways of the ancestors were repeated without alteration. —Sam Keen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another. —Quentin Crisp More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. —Arnold H. Glasow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me. —Rahel Varnhagen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. —Harry Emerson Fosdick More about this quote Tags: peace pouncing reactivity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One way to slow down and begin to change our perspective is to begin to measure our lives by each breath we take, rather than by each day, month, or year. . . . It won't make a better you or a worse you. But it will reveal you. —Angel Kyodo Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness — either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself — and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not know whether today we are busy or idle. I have seemed to myself very indolent at times, when, as it afterward appeared, much was accomplished in me. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. —Milan Kundera More about this quote Tags: peace nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. —Rollo May More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leisure is gone — gone where the spinning wheels are gone, and the packhorses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. —George Eliot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and "have fun. —Phillip Lopate More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email