"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."

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Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.347, Celestial Arts

Jeanne Elium

#Struggle Quotes #Unique Quotes #Groups Quotes

“I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.”
“Love life's weariness leavens.”

Source : Henri Cazalis, “Always”
“Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.”
“I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.”
“Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.”
“We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.”
“I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb.”
“Losers are those who are afraid of losing”

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