Accepting Quote by Jack Kornfield

“Once a child enters adolescence, it may become increasingly difficult to raise these issues. Because adolescence is a time of rebellion—of self-definition, of distinguishing…

— Jonathan Berent

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and…

— Haim Ginott

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

— Anonymous

Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts…

— Joseph Conrad

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

— Kelly Asbury

The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast…

— Helene Deutsch

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range…

— Anonymous

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...”

— John Geddes