"Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction."

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Source : David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.19, Da Capo Press

David Elkind

#Love Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Adults Quotes

“My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.”
“My ultimate goal is to try to be real. It just so happens that I'm usually more happy than sad when I'm writing. And in general I think that life is pretty great, and it's cool to be here, so that comes through in my music. I don't have a dismal outlook, but I don't aim to make positive music. It's just what I am.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.”
“What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news.”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.20, Seven Stories Press
“By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.”
“Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.”

Source : Edward Topsell (1981). “Histories of Beasts”, Burnham Incorporated Pub
“I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.”
“I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think its the same thing for a country.”

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