The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that’s being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won’t approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We’ve no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

Poul Anderson

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

Pat Conroy

It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. – Maya

Girl Meets World

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

Troy Jackson

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

Philip Zaleski

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

Jules Verne

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Charles Dickens

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

Ransom Riggs

Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Jen Pollock Michel

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Maureen Corrigan

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

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’s perspective of what is significant.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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.

Lois Lowry

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.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

Thomas L. Friedman

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.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

James Carl Nelson

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.

Robert A. Heinlein

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

Lynne Olson

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

Robert Dallek

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

Jeffrey Toobin

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

Ron Suskind

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

Chris Matthews

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

Chris Matthews

Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Geraldine Brooks

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

Davis Miller

JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.

David Pietrusza

Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: "He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.

David Pietrusza

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

Jim Bouton

Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Nothing that remains static is truly ever alive. Nature does not abide idleness. All energy sources of the natural world and the cosmos are in a constant motion, they are in a perpetual state of fluctuation. All forms of living must make allowances for the seasons of change. The Earth itself is twirling through space, spinning on its axis analogous to a child’s top. The unpredictable forces of instability brought about by a combination of motion, change, and flux propels the miraculous dynamism of existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.

Toni Morrison

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

(He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

John Feinstein

Graduates fared better if, during college, they did any one of these: developed a relationship with a mentor; took on a project that lasted a semester or more; did a job or internship directly connected to their chosen field; or became deeply involved in a campus organization or activity (as opposed to minimally involved in a range of things).

Frank Bruni

Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?

Matt Chandler

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

George F. Will

when you’re the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they’ve let you go.

New York Times Staff

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

New York Times Staff

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

Andrew Zolli

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

John Ferling

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

H.W. Brands

More depended on the student than on the school.

Robert A. Heinlein

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Rick Perlstein

The Mother Thing makes our world.

Robert A. Heinlein

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Philip Zaleski

Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.

Philip Zaleski

She was too well-trained to panic.

Steve Sheinkin

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Harold Holzer

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

Charles Dickens

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Harold Bloom

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