Sometimes, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It’s knowing you could be the author instead.
People grow up by living.
Life leaves scars. Sometimes you don’t see them until later. Sometimes you don’t know where they’ve come from. Sometimes they fade before your eyes. But the world leaves its mark on us.
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it’s not like that. It happens overnight.
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them — no matter how old or impressive they may be — as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much — we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disg…
I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re going to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Sometimes, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.
When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
I’m not running away, I’m moving on.
Being an adult means knowing yourself. It means listening to your own needs. It means understanding which kind of lifestyle you want to be living and then pursuing it unapologetically.
Childhood passions that seem like fads, sometimes even totally unproductive, could be mediums for experiencing the virtuous cycle of curiosity: discovering, trying, failing and growing.
I’ve kept going, even when I really didn’t want to and would have preferred to just curl up in bed and sleep forever and ever.
You have responsibilities at eighteen that you didn’t have before, but you still feel like a little kid.
You, me, and everything we do, will one day be forgotten. It will be as if we never existed, even though we did. Nobody will care. Just like right now, almost nobody cares what you actually say or do with your life. And this is actually really good news: it means you can get away with a lot of stupi…