#adult

If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed. ↗

— Laura Goode

#poet #writing #young-adult #inspirational

Why do adults think every girl who isn’t some overachieving nitwit needs to be reassured about her intelligence? Folks, my self-esteem is just fine, thanks. I may not be school smart, and I may do extremely stupid things sometimes, but I know I’m smart. And I’d give me some serious Vegas odds to kick the ass of Sarah Scholar at life-skills moral combat any day. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#intelligence

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#growing-up #life #maturity #life

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever ↗

— Germaine Greer

#life #young-adult #life

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#growing-up #learning #life #pain #life

One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude. ↗

— J.Z. Colby

#educational #personal-power #science-fiction #young-adult #attitude

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#childhood #life

Steph, you are my sister and I love you. I have always tried to protect you, even when it meant leaving you to fend for yourself so that you'd become strong on your own. ↗

— Thaddeus Nowak

#love

All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would. ↗

— Amy Reed

#love #young-adult #love

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #love #truth #young-adult