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Adulthood Quote by Robert Bly

“Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.” quote by Robert Bly — Download Open image

“Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.”

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I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then…

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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

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I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

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Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

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Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

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“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít…

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“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of this. As he tried to push through a crowded aisle, he said loudly: "Life is never easy. And it's never pleasant." I couldn't let this go. I looked up at him from my seat and said,…

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