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maturity

dad joke

brownie

Boy Scout

lying

one-liner

growing up

growth

trivia

Uranus

shark

decision making

adulthood

Thanksgiving

childishness

play

parking lot

childhood

wonder

rock

adulting

caring

unrequited love

parenting

ice cream

influence

bad influence

forgetting

old age

transformation

personal change

personal growth

serotonin

snobbery

TikTok

immaturity

millennial

Schroedinger's cat

teenager

Little Mermaid

dating

is a process characterized by a series of energy displacements or object substitutions whereby the source and aim of the instinct (i.e. Oral pleasure) remain the same when the energy is displaced (into smoking, kissing, etc.).

The development of personality proceeds, in large measure, by a series of energy displacements or object substitutions. The source and aim of the instinct remain the same when the energy is displaced... it is only the goal object that varies.

is about allowing oneself to make mistakes and create contradictions.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

is achieving a state where one no longer registers surprise or disillusionment or doubt over evidence that depravity exist, or of the kinds of things humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans.

Someone who is permanently surprised that depravity exist, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.' Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

is, as the psychic development of the individual, a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. Freud

is bored. Few realize how bored out of their minds they are by what they get from the news media.

bored. I think that people are really bored out of their minds by what they get from the news media.

is discovering the core of strength within one that survives all hurt.

when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

is hinged to the ability to find solutions to life's challenges.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person. Mark Twain

is knowing where one's craziness lies, trying to warn other of the fact and striving to keep oneself under control.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn other of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. (Alain de Botton)

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