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"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."

Louise J. Kaplan on Teen

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• "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

  e. e. cummings on Teen

• "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

  John C. Maxwell on Teen

• "As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."

  Johnny Depp on Teen

• "As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

  Fran Lebowitz on Teen

• "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

  Bryan White on Teen

More quotes by Louise J. Kaplan

• "Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."

• "Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."

• "The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."

• "Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."