Quotes About Adulthood

A vida adulta está cheia de encruzilhadas significativas nas quais fazer a coisa certa é sem dúvida mais complicado. Conduzir-se a contento por esse caminho faz parte do portfólio do córtex frontal, e desenvolver as habilidades necessárias para fazer isso de maneira correta requer um profundo aprimoramento por meio da experiência.

Interestingly, traumatic stress early in life (abuse, for example) greatly increases the risk of IBS in adulthood. This implies that childhood trauma can leave an echo of vulnerability, a large intestine that is hyperreactive to stress, long afterward.

And what being an adult means is knowing what you have to do and doing it, even though you may not feel like doing it.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

Oh, she thought, how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne.

I suppose we'll get used to being grownup in time. There won't be so many unexpected things about it by and by–though, after all, I fancy it's the unexpected things that give spice to life.

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once," said Anne gaily. "You see, I was little for fourteen years and I've only been grown-uppish for scarcely three. I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the woods.

The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only the one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once, said Anne gaily. You see, I was little for fourteen years and I've only been grown-uppish for scarcely three.

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

How horrible it is that people have to grow up!

Well, they don't talk to me very much, I said. You see, they're all grown up, and they have grown-up games like whist and lawn tennis, and talking, you know, just for the sake of talking (this seemed a strange pursuit to me).

And everyone assured him that he would never be a man until he learned how to drive. Indeed, the future was already dull and menacing with the ambitions other people entertained on his behalf.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.