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Quotes About Adulthood

I've tried to be more mature and my mindset is a lot different now.
~ Judd Trump
I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.
~ Katy Perry
I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
~ Laura Dekker
I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.
~ Katy Perry
I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.
~ Nicholas Haslam
You might say something like this: "Dear little child, I am your adult self. I would like to tell you that we are no longer a baby, helpless and vulnerable. We have strong hands and strong feet; we can very well defend ourselves. So there is no reason why we have to continue to be fearful anymore.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
As a tender baby, we have arms and feet, but we can't use them. We need someone to take care of us. With original fear comes original desire. There is the fear of being left alone and there is the desire to survive. Even when we've grown up to be an adult, the original fear and original desire are still there.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
~ Thomas Hardy
Estava no período mais brilhante do crescimento masculino, com seus intelectos e emoções claramente separadas. O tempo no qual a influência da juventude indiscriminadamente se misturava à impulsividade havia passado, e ainda não havia chegado à fase em que elas se uniam novamente, pela ingerência de uma esposa ou da família. Resumindo, estava com vinte e oito anos e solteiro.
~ Thomas Hardy
In short, he was twenty-eight, and a bachelor.
~ Thomas Hardy
THEIR ADULT CHILDREN ARE ECONOMICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
If her luck held, she'd never have to know. The baby was perfect cover, it made her something else, a mom, that was all, just another mom in the nation of moms, ad all she'd ever have to do to be safe was stay inside that particular fate, bring up the kid, grow into some version of Sasha... speak the right lines, stay within budget, wrap each day, one by one, before she lost the light.
~ Thomas Pynchon
she had lost just too much control, time was rushing all around her, these were rapids, and as far ahead as she could see it looked like Brock's stretch of the river, another stage, like sex, children, surgery, further into adulthood perilous and real, into the secret that life is soldiering, that soldiering includes death, those those soldiered for, not yet and often never in on the secret, are always, at every age, children.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Children have no frame of reference with which to understand that those rules are simply choices that his parents have made, and that other families and communities will have different styles of relating and behaving. His focus becomes narrow, he becomes less flexible, and may have trouble as an adult operating outside of the rules set for him by his parents.
~ Katherine Mayfield
As an adult, you have enough knowledge and life experience to take good care of yourself, and you don't need to blindly follow childhood rules any longer in order to keep yourself safe.
~ Katherine Mayfield
When a child carries unspoken rules into adulthood, he or she may try to determine what others are thinking based on their behavior rather than their words, and because behavior can be based on a variety of motivations, this can cause blocks in communication.
~ Katherine Mayfield
If a child grows to adulthood without examining the view of life, self, and the world he or she grew up with, it's likely that quite a bit of this early "programming" will still affect the adult's opinion of self and the way in which he or she sees and interacts with the world. This can sometimes place limitations on how well the person copes with life and what they can accomplish.
~ Katherine Mayfield
she absorbed in an instant the truth that genuine adulthood comes when one does not run off because of shame, when one stays and demands a home.
~ Katherine Vaz
such a commotion. Having reached the age of twenty and two
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Life management problems
~ Kathleen G. Nadeau
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
~ Kathleen Norris
I thought I had found my true vocation and happiness, but in a strange way, they were just like my stepmother because they didn't want me to grow up either. This is really important you understand, Virginia, because I had gone from something very bad to something very good, but it was only halfway right. They loved me, but they wanted me to stay small like them.
~ Kathryn Wesley
Finch knew that no matter how old it might say she was on her I.D., what those men had done to her had shoved her headlong into adulthood.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
Grownups were always breaking promises as if it didn't matter at all.
~ Keigo Higashino