"Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers."

-- Terri E Apter

#Self Confidence Quotes #Unique Quotes #Swings Quotes

“I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.
“Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.”
“I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.”
“As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha”
“We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.”
“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.”
“Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.”

Source : Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax
“See the Face of God in everyone.”

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