![]() ![]() “We’re all small and harmless once, Archidi. “You’re a bit young for this,’ she said, ‘but as you grow older you’ll find most people don’t set foot outside their own heads much. “It is unfortunate that the mistakes of the parents are so easy to spot, while those of the children are yet to be committed.” “One becomes an adult on the day one realizes that others don’t have to share one’s beliefs or concerns.” ![]() “Growing up as an adult does not mean that you have to kill a child inside you.” “It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us.” That’s why we glance over at red lights, curious if others feel it too.” You can read a nice novel and paint something new,īut those activities are actually pretty isolating too. That all this free time is quite hard to get through. “The adults forgot to tell the kids there isn’t much to do, “Always have a childlike wonder in your heart, even as your view of the world changes.” “High school never ends’ is said by those who peak in high school and die in anonymity. “It’s so much easier to blame the grownups than to be one.” “As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.” Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.” “I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. “People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences in fact it was just the opposite.” And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.” “I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were…miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.” You have a whole lifetime time takes time. “I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.” ![]() “People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.” What’s excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly” “Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. It may come to its full stature in an hour.” “The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.” “I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. “As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.” “For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.” But when you’re older, somehow they act offended if you even try.” “Don’t you find it odd,” she continued, “that when you’re a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” “Becoming an adult’ is overrated and mythical.” “Adulthood is like looking both ways to cross a street only to get hit by a falling object. “The days were like grown-up people, the mornings always young.” “We are always told that anyone over the age of eighteen should know what they are doing. “If you’re going to be a grown-up,” said Joan, “you’ve got to start thinking about grown-up things. And then wish we were kids again, because the adult life ain’t no fucking joke.” “We want to be adults so bad, that one day we’ll grow up and actually be them. “I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. It’s all just adult junk that doesn’t mean anything.” “Don’t worry about any of this stuff, okay? “It’s like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things.” You’ve had more practice.” Mom leaned back and laughed.” “You’re an adult.” “You’re an adult too.” “But you’re an older adult. “You try all your life to be an adult, but something deep down inside you will always be that child.” While the going could be tough that doesn’t mean we can’t read up on funny and inspirational quotes about it! Here are 40 Funny & Inspirational Quotes on Adulting While this may not be always true, most adults would agree that adulting is just hard! In fact, according to a financial survey, people in their 20s or 30s are finding it difficult to achieve financial freedom and adulting in general. There are just so many things we didn’t learn in school right? It seems like the universe is conspiring to grapple our way into adulthood with little to no guidance. Adulting is a rocky path that all of us will have to traverse for the rest of our lives. ![]()
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