Adulthood Quotes
I’ve spent awhile trying to figure out where I’m going and the only thing I’ve come to realize is it doesn’t matter where, it’s how I get there.
As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.
How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?
One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.
Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.
And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.
Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.
In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.
The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.
Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.
Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.
To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.
There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.
You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.
My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn't bear to watch him leave with so much luggage.
You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.
At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.
I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.
A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced.
Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.
It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.
Church is not about learning how to be a moral person (though that is what the dominant narrative they hear tells them)
It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.
The period of time between eligibility to vote and the start of adulthood is a window of opportunity that the liberals are willing to exploit to their advantage.
You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….
They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.
Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.
Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.
