It's not like me to forgive and move on always Looking back on my mistakes and others' Too distant to see where I went wrong
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Quotes tagged ‘Growing Up’
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did when he was twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did when he was twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Learning to sleep in new places was an ability you were supposed to lose as you grew older, but I never had it.
That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads
When you’re in your 20s, you change. A lot. I know this sounds ridiculous, but like I’m 26 and whenever I meet someone who’s 22 or 23 — even if I love them — I’m just like, “Go back into the oven because you aren’t done yet.” Three years do make a major difference in your 20s because every year is l…
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think…
I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Did you ever love me Biopsy from the origin of sound Confirms you're speaking truthfully Concludes everything I thought about
our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.
Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.
Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.
I will never be old. I’d scarf a cyanide capsule first. Life isn’t worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of…
When I was a boy I could hear Symphonies in seashells. So why am I so deaf at twenty-two? To the sound of the driving snow, That drives me home to you.
This forced me to start thinking of the game as a strategic problem rather than a tactical one. As a young player, you tend to focus most of your attention on how you're going beat your man in any given game. But now I began to see basketball as a dynamic game of chess in which all the pieces were i…
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now? Numbers alone won't tell you the answer; instead you must think critically about the qualitative characteristics of your business.
Nature expects a full-grown man to accept the two black voids, fore and aft, as stolidly as he accepts the extraordinary visions in between. Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.