#growing

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#growing-up #life #parents #life

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall ↗

— Paolo Nutini

#life-lessons #stress #life

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#growing-up #hard-times #kids #life-lessons #logan-thibault

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#life #manga #naruto #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

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ↗

— Judith Martin

#taxes #teenagers #life

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#growing-up #life #life

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. ↗

— Vera B. Williams

#growing-up #life

His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#life

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted. ↗

— Roman Payne

#aging #growing-old #life #payne #time