All of living is a process of coming of age, of reconciling
the essence of the inner self with one’s outer being,with the world, and with
changing expectations for that self in the world.
- Kay E. Vandergrift
Rome, Italy
The teen and young adult years, when young people are perched precariously on the brink between childhood and
adult responsibilities, are, of course, when the coming of age process is most obvious.
- K.E.V.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Tanzania
Los Angeles, USA
and the mature imagination of a man is healthy;
but there is a space of life between,
in which the soul is in a ferment,
the character undecided, the way of life uncertain,
the ambition thick-sighted.
- John Keats
Havana, Cuba
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition
Gubbio, Italy
Germany
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Kabul, Afghanistan
Budapest, Hungary
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect,
he becomes an adolescent;
the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult;
the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
- Alden Nolan
Kabul, Afghanistan
Dublin, Ireland
We don’t stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Italy
Flechtingen, Germany
Zabid, Yemen
Germany
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
La Fortuna, Honduras
Honduras
Zagreb, Croatia
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and
while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer.
So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
- Deborah Bull
Tibet
Passage
Young man,
Young woman,
Life turns for you.
This is a magic time,
a mythic passage,
In your becoming
We who welcome you,
None of us is too old
So as to have forgotten
–the mystery of not
knowing,
–the delight of first
discovery,
–the impatience to hurry
what will come next
–the terrible wonderfulness
of the changes…
-Edward Searl
