314 quotes found
“We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't do that. And that's when we get in trouble. ...We mature and take respon...”
“Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session prob...”
“Your chronological age makes you older, grownNess is a state of mind!”
“I was always the girl growing up who just wasnt quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard. I liked contorting my body until I could feel the ache inside my bones, until I could feel the pai...”
“Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall”
“Growing up is the dumbest thing I ever wanted to rush into.”
“I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
“I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.”
“We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.”
“It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.”
“I was going to be a memory when I grew up.”
“You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?”
“He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.”
“With Martyn, I hold forth some of the philosophies I've been honing since beginning my travels in Ireland almost two years ago, about universal health care and the travel practices of American yout...”
“Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me thered be days like these. How could nobody tell me thered be days like these? How could they let me grow up like thathappy and pink and stupid?”
“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”
“Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.”
“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he look...”
“A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at ...”
“I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and beg...”
