Growing up Quote by Stephen King

“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.”

— Matthew Kelly

“Only as I approached adulthood did I realize that life is a process of continual becoming.”

— Peter Korn

“Adulthood is just a number.”

— Jeffrey Cranor

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

— Alain de Botton

“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 be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.”

— Samuel H. Barondes

“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

“So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but that I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

— John Fowles

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

— Ellen Goodman

“Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side. I”

— Jodi Picoult