#growing

Life isn't happily ever after & golden sunsets & shit like that. It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that & maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed & have your trust broken & have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves & work-at everything- because that's what growing older is. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#life #life

Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better not to know the lyrics to your life. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#music #life

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#calls #chasing #early #growing #growing up

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#around #blood #fashion #growing #growing up

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.' ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#art #band #been #born #called

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

#california #family #ghetto #girl #growing

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#growing #growing up #i #loving #loving parents

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate. ↗

— James McGreevey

#closet #community #conscience #denial #family

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. ↗

— George McGovern

#because #dakota #debt #growing #growing up

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. ↗

— Peter Medawar

#changes #growing #growing up #just #leave