#comin

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to. ↗

— Celine Dion

#assets #coming #definitely #family #going

Today I realized that I am nothing more than tomorrow's ghost. In a way, it robs my sense of self to know I'm always changing; at the same time, it provides incentive to have the best today possible so I can have a positive influence on tomorrow and, if need be, shake some sense into the living. (Samantha Green) ↗

— Riley Noehren

#life-and-living #change

There – that was the awkward 'I think you're lovely and I do hope we can be friends but, oh, by the way, please don't get flirty because I'm not really in the vagina business' bit over and done with ↗

— FayJay

#humor #business

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn ↗

— Jim Rohn

#change #directions #change

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. ↗

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

#going-away #magic #travel #change

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. ↗

— Pam Brown

#changes #coming #coming home #empty #home

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#graduation #growth #insight #maturity #teenager

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#books #coming-of-age #lewis-carroll #age

We all deserve the love we think we deserve. ↗

— Chbosky

#coming-of-age #love #the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower #age

Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly. ↗

— Anthony Venn-Brown

#coming-out-of-the-closet #coming-out-stories #change