Quarterlife Quotes

“Like most people in this age group, I was sent up the ladder of academic development: first grade to second grade, fifth grade to sixth, all the way through high school and college. Then I was released into the world as if I’d been trained for a life beyond academia. But I hadn’t been. I hadn’t been taught how to cook healthy meals or change a tire, let alone how to ask myself who I was or what I wanted out of life. Moreover, I hadn’t been offered tools to make sense of living in a world beset by countless overlapping social and environmental catastrophes.”
― Satya Doyle Byock, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

“He walked rigidly and calmly, not believing that a person you loved—yes, he had loved her—could end up being someone you never knew. Perhaps he had known all along about her, but he couldn’t see it. He just couldn’t.”
― Satya Doyle Byock, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

“wholeness and ease”
― Satya Doyle Byock, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

“Though benchmarks of development may be set, prior life stages are not defined by successes or failures.”
― Satya Doyle Byock, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

“What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.” —Carl Jung, The Red Book”
― Satya Doyle Byock, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood