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“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also because I was raised, from an early age, to fear anything that posed even the mildest of threats”

Book:Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations

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“It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world. And in doing so, we lose the ability to wonder about something central-something philosophers try to restore. For somewhere inside ourselves, something tells us that life is a huge mystery. This is something we once experienced, long before we learned to think the thought.”

Philosophy Growing Up

Book:Sophie’s World

Source: Sophie’s World

“Simply growing ‘up’ is far too limited. Rather, I want to grow in every direction.”

Growth Growing Up Personal Development Emerging Advancing Maturation Blossoming Striving Professional Coaching Personal Coaching

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not your fault if you were born or brought up in adverse circumstances. But, if this continues when you are an independent adult, no one else is responsible.”

Life Lessons Growing Up Success Quotes Growth Quotes

Author:Rahul Shrivastava

“Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?”

Growing Up Adulthood

Book:Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Source: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

“As you grow up, a lot of people will come and tell you a lot of mean things. It is just how the world works. But remember what I just told you; you get to make the choice, good or bad. Not them. And just because they say something over and over again, doesn’t mean it is the truth”

Growing Up

Book:Full Circle

Source: Full Circle

“I wondered if I'd ever grow up to become a child like her.”

Children Growing Up Adults

Book:Lullaby Road

Source: Lullaby Road

“If fairy-story as a kind is worth reading at all it is worthy to be written for and read by adults. They will, of course, put more in and get more out than children can. Then, as a branch of a genuine art, children may hope to get fairy-stories fit for them to read and yet within their measure; as they may hope to get suitable introductions to poetry, history, and the sciences. Though it may be better for them to read some things, especially fairy-stories, that are beyond their measure rather than short of it. Their books like their clothes should allow for growth, and their books at any rate should encourage it.”

Reading Literature Growing Up Fairy Tales Maturation Children S Literature Fairytales Fairy Stories Childrens Literature Juvenile Fiction

Book:The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

Source: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

“I know this doesn't exactly make me unique, but I love the internet. I love it. I think the way I feel about the internet is the way some people feel about the ocean. It's so huge and unknowable, but also totally predictable. You type a line of symbols and click enter, and everything you want to happen, happens. Not like real life, where all the wanting in the world can't make something exist”

Growing Up Internet Longing Connection Adolescence Crushes Longing For Love

Book:The Upside of Unrequited

Source: The Upside of Unrequited

“You’ve always been my independent one. You hold in so much. You aren’t who anyone decides you are. You aren’t how anyone treats you. You have to find peace in that. It’s not easy, but you do.”

Love Growing Up Finding Yourself

Book:Not the Girls You're Looking For

Source: Not the Girls You're Looking For

“Take a good look at the wide world,' he said. 'You decide the rest.”

World Decision Growing Up

Book:Go

Source: Go

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