424 Quotes About Adulthood

Jeg er bange for ægteskabskontrakter og indelukket mødelokaleluft. Bange for flekstid og det første påtagede smil. Bange for, at det frie liv er slut, for fastansættelse, pensionsordning, spa-weekender i maj. Bange for livets gang, måske.

Someone wise told me recently that Adulting was hard. My response: TRUE STORY

Adults, I understand, have many faults, they are not perfect—even though they have lived longer, even though they offer themselves as examples to children. They are larger, that is certain, and size has an unearned authority. But they are easily influenced, and they can be easily swayed.

here was no way of knowing what path he would take from there, but in order to survive as a human being, he was sure to arrive at the fate of having to incur the dislike of other human beings. When that time came, he would probably clothe himself inconspicuously, so as not to attract attention, and beggarlike, linger about the market places of man, in search of something.

The more I dealt with adults, the less I wanted to be one.

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.

Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to do with your grades, your weight or where you finished in the 800 meter race. Becoming a mature adult means, among other things, that you define yourself relative to your own potential, not relative somebody else's standard.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.