Adolescence Quote by Jeanne Elium

The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the…

— Elliot W. Eisner

Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience…

— Zick Rubin

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

— John Geddes

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

The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

— Christian Smith

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

“a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.”

— John Irving

I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting…

— Linda Goldstein Knowlton

The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth…

— Jack Kornfield

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