“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.” — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
When we are young, everyone teaches us to talk and walk, but as we grow up, they tell us to shut up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even if you make it into adulthood without running, you aren't out of the woods yet. You may still get sucked in.” — Dana L. Ayers Copy Share Image
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do… — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went… — Nancy Freund Copy Share Image
“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs.… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
“Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are… — Thomas B. Edsall Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is supposed to be about "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity". "Adolescents, and their parents who were once adolescents, are… — Phillips Copy Share Image
“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
![“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226” quote by Stephanie Dowrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/405/stephanie-dowrick-28632_adulthood_the-responsibility-for-their-wellbeing-a_162017.png)
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