“You owe nothing to your younger self. You are not responsible for the person you once thought you'd be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're seeing issues you struggled with as a kid reappear in your adult life, and while on the surface this may seem like a matter of not having overcome them, it really means you are becoming conscious of why you think and feel so you can change it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to y…”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up–that growing is an ever ongoing process.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“I'm just saying that this is—this is something that's never gonna happen. You know—your shirt is stupid. Grow up. If I have to wait for you to become Kurt Cobain, I'm never gonna be a mother.”— Jennifer Garner, Vanessa, amazon.com
“Charlotte: 'I just don't know what I'm supposed to be.' Bob: 'You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.'”— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com
“Frances: 'Do I look old to you?' Benji: 'No. Yes.' Frances: 'How old?' Benji: 'Older than I am.' Frances: 'Older than 27?' Benji: 'No. 27 is old, though.'”— Greta Gerwig, Michael Zegen, Frances, Benji, amazon.com
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the pro…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“OK...you know what? I don't feel protected. You try living for 15 years thinking that you're one person, and then in five minutes, you find out you're a princess. Just in case I wasn't enough of a freak already, let's add a tiara!”— Gina Wendkos, Mia, Anne Hathaway, imdb.com
“I can't be a princess! I'm still waiting for normal body parts to arrive!”— Gina Wendkos, Mia, Anne Hathaway, imdb.com
“Morticia: 'Wednesday's at that very special age when a girl has only one thing on her mind.' Ellen: 'Boys?' Wednesday: 'Homicide.'”— Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Harriet Sansom Harris, Wednesday Addams, Morticia, Ellen, amazon.com
“Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!”— Betty White, m.imdb.com