Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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