Quotes tagged ‘Adulting’

“Taking food out of the Tupperware before heating it up. Did you know you were supposed to do this? I did, but also, I’m hungry.”

— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com

“Adulthood is low key lonely af. Everyone’s busy. Everyone sucks at texting. We all just work all day to come home and sleep to wake up and work again. On weekends you catch up on things you couldn’t do during the week. It’s all stupid lol. PSA: I’m literally just saying all these things make it hard…”

— Neqina Wright, twitter.com

“I've never been very good at the adult thing, I guess.”

— Alex Metcalf, Camille Preaker, Amy Adams, imdb.com

“Being an adult is like writing a paper with a deadline approaching, everyday.”

— Jackie Hill Perry, twitter.com

“After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here's what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own....But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us....And just when…”

— Krista Vernoff, Mimi Schmir, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Getting older means accepting that the people you've grown to love won't be here forever.”

— Issa Rae, twitter.com

“Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.”

— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org

“Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Do not endanger it frivolously. And never endanger the life of another.”

— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org

“Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.”

— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org

“Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, never blame. Say nothing behind another’s back you’d be unwilling to say, in exactly the same tone and language, to his face.”

— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org

“Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.”

— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org

“Expand your sense of the possible.”

— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org

“Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.”

— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org

“If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“Jerry, it's three-thirty in the morning. I'm at a cockfight. What am I clinging to?”

— Jennifer Crittenden, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“OUR LIVES! What kind of lives are these? We're like children. We're not men.”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“When girls write to us about how inadequate they feel and how shitty Instagram makes them feel and how cool other people look and how lame they are, I just want to be like, No, no, no, no! This is all strategic. You’re doing great. Nothing exciting is happening over here except ambitious people in a…”

— Tavi Gevinson, thecut.com

“Being an adult is having the “we have food at home” talk with yourself.”

— just-shower-thoughts, just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com

“Adulthood is like the vet, and we’re all dogs that were excited for the car ride until we realized where we’re going.”

— kangarudy, mckitterick.tumblr.com

“How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice?”

— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com