Character Quote by Erika Hayasaki

“If you can look back at your entire life and at the end of the day and say, ‘You know? My life was good.…

— Erika Hayasaki

“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would…

— Scott Turow

“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Wasn’t that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good, and wanted…

— Orson Scott Card

“Near the end of our lives, many of us struggle to move beyond the death of our dreams, beyond how we have been wounded…

— Ronald Rolheiser

“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of comprehending. Childhood…

— Rick Reynolds

“Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we…

— Richard Beckham II

“[I have] a deeply entrenched rule that I cannot rest or relax until all my work is done. What a deal. I could die…

— Mary Bray Pipher

“Life is short and I want to live every day like it is my last without regrets. At my age, I have had many…

— Fanny Lai

“Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as possible. Otherwise,…

— Sonya Chung

“Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or…

— Emil Cioran