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“They teach you growing up that you are only one thing at a time—angry, lonely, content—but he’s never found that to be true. He is a dozen things at once. He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid.”

Book:The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I’ll bend toward cynicism and despair. If I have only gratitude, I’ll become saccharine and won’t develop much compassion for other people’s suffering. Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible.”

Grief Growing Up Adulthood

Author:Francis Weller

“I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.”

Life Growing Up

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes a long time, and you really must eat your vegetables, and most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself.”

Growing Up

Book:The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“Listen, son… when I was your age, I had to face truths that seemed to break the world. That’s what happens when you come into contact with people who aren’t quite like you. You learn over time that the world isn’t broken. It’s just… got more pieces to it than you thought. They all fit together, just maybe not the way you pictured when you were young.”

Life Growing Up

Book:The Sword of Kaigen

Source: The Sword of Kaigen

“Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.”

Children Mother Father Parent Growing Up Teaching Guidance Richelle Goodrich Parenthood Richelle Direction Me I I Am

Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Maybe it’s just getting older. You become so palpably aware this is not a dress rehearsal. There’s a big sign in blazing neon that says You Haven’t Got Long. But I think it takes a beat to learn that. Life has to knock you down in order for you to realise it, because when you’re a kid you think you’re immortal.”

Growing Up

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Out of curiosity, when do I grow up and become a fullfledged man with a penis?” “When words like ‘hump day’ don’t make you giggle like a twelve-year-old,” he retorted, blowing smoke my way. “Wow, that long?”

Humor Growing Up Childishness Hump Day

Book:Shattered Glass

Source: Shattered Glass

“In the Desert In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”

Heart Poetry Bitterness

Book:The Black Riders and Other Lines

Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines

“I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.”

Growing Up Coming Of Age

Book:Every Exquisite Thing

Source: Every Exquisite Thing

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