Quotes by Louise J. Kaplan

Louise J. Kaplan

A man’s fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.

Children

Father

Memories

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction–a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

Future

Law

Past

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence

Childhood

Teenager

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

Character

Strength

Time

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.

Past

Powerful

Struggle

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

Destiny

Generations

Links

Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn’t changed much since she was five or six years old.

Baby

Creative

Years

Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender, raw, thin-skinned, poignantly vulnerable. Her entire sense of personal worth can be shattered by a frown. An innocuous clarification of facts can be heard as a monumental criticism.

Centeredness

Criticism

Self

As he walks away on his own two feet–the toddler’s body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds…. As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

Circles

Mother

Omnipotence

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.

Passion

Safety

Self

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Alternatives

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Animal

Art

Attachment

Avid

Baby

Boys

Brother

Centeredness

Century

Character

Childhood

Children

Circles

Compassion

Creative

Criticism

Design

Desire

Destiny

Deviance

Dream

Dust

Elderly

Emotional

Eye

Father

Future

Generations

Giving

Growth

Hero

Home

Imagination

Individuality

Inspiration

Inspirational

Issues

Journey

Law

Links

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Maturity

Memories

Mother

Moving

Omission

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Quotes by Louise J. Kaplan

Louise J. Kaplan

A man’s fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction–a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

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.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

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