Quotes About Adulthood

soul. And the closer we get to adulthood, the more we stifle the imagination that journey requires. Why? Because imagining other possibilities for our lives would remind us of the painful gap between who we most truly are and the role we play in the so-called real world.

This tendency to continue exuberant play into adulthood is one of the factors that leads most scientists to consider dogs and humans as "paedomorphic

I would never disrespect your grandmother's rolling pin. Your old pack did everything in their power to turn you into a victim, and when that crazy wolf started for me, you still grabbed the rolling pin to defend me from him, even though you were terrified of him. I think it is the bravest thing I have ever seen. And possibly the only time anyone has tried to defend me since I reached adulthood.

Some people are boys longer than others.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

It's too early for you to have grown up this much.' 'Yeah, well, sometimes you don't have a choice.

Smart boys make useless men.

I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

Honestly. Adults. How do they live in the world? (Or maybe that is how they live in the world.)

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2 000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Cuando somos niños, casi nunca pensamos en el futuro. Esa inocencia nos deja libres para disfrutar como pocos adultos pueden hacerlo. El día que empezamos a preocuparnos por el futuro es el día que dejamos atrás nuestra infancia.

TOWARD THE END OF the summer I accidentally overheard a conversation that shook me out of my state of blissful ignorance. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

El día que dejamos de preocuparnos por el futuro es el día que dejamos atrás nuestra infancia.

Hacia finales del verano, oí, sin proponérmelo, una conversación que me sacó de mi estado de dichosa ignorancia. Cuando somos niños, casi nunca pensamos en el futuro. Esa inocencia nos deja libres para disfrutar como pocos adultos pueden hacerlo. El día que empezamos a preocuparnos por el futuro es el día que dejamos atrás nuestra infancia.

Quando crianças, raramente pensamos no futuro. Essa inocência nos deixa livres para nos divertirmos como poucos adultos conseguem. O dia que nos inquietamos com o futuro é aquele em que deixamos a infância para trás.

Der Tag, an dem wir beginnen, uns Gedanken über die Zukunft zu machen, ist der Tag, an dem wir unsere Kindheit hinter und lassen.

Act your age, not your shoe size Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Factio vestri aevum, non vestri calceus amplitudo.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

If they're still sullen and whiny when they pass nineteen, they probably always will be. Another half century of bitching and moaning about bosses and wives and how the other guys got all the luck. "Riggs. Charlie Riggs.