"What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life."

-- Laurence Steinberg

#Giving Up Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!”

Source : "Cycling makes you look and feel great!". "Raise Your Game" with Colin Jackson, www.bbc.co.uk.
“I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.”
“So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.”
“When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.”
“You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.”
“In quietness the soul expands.”

Source : Rockwell Kent (2015). “Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska”, p.14, Library of Alexandria
“Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.”
“When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.”

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