Category Archives: ADULTHOOD

ADULTHOOD, CHANGE, CHARACTER, COMMUNICATION

“The important thing isn’t that the bear dances well, rather that the bear dances at all!” — Unknown Smart Person

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

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ADULTHOOD, DREAMING, ENCOURAGEMENT, THINK THINK THINK

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.” ― David Sedaris, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls

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“Don’t you find it odd,” she continued, “that when you’re a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you’re older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
― Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State

ADULTHOOD, ADVICE

Good advice once was worth a camel; now that it is free of charge, no one takes it. Lebanese

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  • At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.
    Spanish

 

ADULTHOOD, BALANCE, SELF ACCEPTANCE

Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”

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― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

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A balance. Between delight and duty. Between immediate gratification and long-term goal. Between rule and surprise. Between prayer and action, love and work. A grown up balance in living.

 

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton

ADULTHOOD, BEHAVIOUR, CHARACTER

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)…”

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― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.  There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.  J.C. Watts

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A WAY OF LIFE, ADULTHOOD, LIFE, LIGHT, PARADOX, RESPONSIBILITY, SUPPORT

Israfel has long been a house of cards, and he has been disturbed. He can feel his supports collapsing, day by day.

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― Louise Blaydon, The Time of the Singing

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“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? 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. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”
― Barry Lopez