#adulthood

We're romantic. We're hopeful. We're done for. The worst part of this all? The idea of struggle and compromise seems exciting to us-that's how stupid we are. There's no stopping fools, I say. We're still kids at heart. Those dreams are still there. Now we just have to go chase them. ↗

— Alida Nugent

#dreams #dreams

Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain. ↗

— Johanna de Silentio

#growing-up #inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adulthood #blunt #finding-yourself #genius #honest

Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards—the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees—have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#adulthood #life #business

I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change. ↗

— Monty Roberts

#beginning #childhood #horses #infancy #memory

Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps because they so often were up to no good, took more comfort from His remoteness. ↗

— Richard Russo

#god #sin #imagination

I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. ↗

— Ashley Ormon

#children #dreams-coming-true #goals #goals-in-life #success

When I god older and realized my life was built around the idea my career would be something I wanted to love, to strive for, to be proud of, I was scared. ↗

— Alida Nugent

#life

My lofty ambitions are partially due to the fact that I'm part of generation, "Yes You Can, I Guess: How about I throw a combination of money, attention, and prescription medication at the problem? ↗

— Alida Nugent

#money

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#childhood #religion #religion