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"Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of."
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"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."

"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."

"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."

"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."

"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you."

"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."

"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."

"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."

"For awakened human beings, there was no obligation-none, none, none at all-except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led."

"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

"He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions."
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