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“Adulthood is supposed to be about "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity". "Adolescents, and their parents who were once adolescents, are simply experiencing…

— Phillips

“Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.”

— Stephen King

“A return to Childhood will rid the Evils of Adulthood”

— Jason Duncan

“The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.”

— Alain de Botton

“Much of young adulthood is presented as a ladder, each rung closer to success, or whatever our society has defined as success. Perhaps climbing…

— Kate Fagan

“it is the overcoming of egoism, the destroying of mean desires, the uplifting of the moral ideal, and the disclosing of inborn wisdom. [FN#12]”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health…

— Kate Middleton

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

— Neal Shusterman

“By the time we reach adulthood we are so full of conventional wisdom, preconceived notions, and filters and limitations of various kinds that we…

— Erland Bakke

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past…

— Frederick Salomon Perls