Quotes About Adulthood

At some point you can no longer insist that your children do this or that. I had learned this lesson the hard way. You have to let them fall down and then you can help them get back up. But you have to let them become adults.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

most deeply held beliefs of early adulthood have changed over the years, through repeated exposure to new and different experiences, and to new ways of thought.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

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I didnt change; I grew up. You should try it sometime

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Your life is only yours once you're out of your parent's house.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

School prepares you for the real world but I want the fake world. TEEHEE