“I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.” IfsKindChildrenLongBookBodyMiddleConversationAdultsDullChildren's Books Author:Neil Gaiman
“When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern of life has become natural to us. It is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in quite a different way. If he is crying, he is crying intensely. The cry of a child is a beautiful thing to hear, but the cry of an adult is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful; he has a total intensity. But when an adult is angry he is ugly; he is not total. And any type of intensity is beautiful.” IfsWayFirstsLooksChildrenDifferentPlayBodyBeautifulDifficultNaturalPracticeMeditationCryTypeAdultsFirst TimeAngerAngryPatternsUglyDifferent WaysIntensityBeautiful ThingsNatural Look Author:Rajneesh
“Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.” IfsInspirationalWorryToo MuchHavensAdultsPlantSpeciesObsessionGrassGraduationMaintenanceLawnsTime And MoneyTurf Author:John Green
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.” IfsChildrenCultureGrowingDyingYouthDemandAdultsHatredTerrorTerrorismChainsBreathingJudgementRefusalEcologicalHookedDisinterestedYouth Culture Author:Midge Decter
“If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.” IfsIndividualResponsibilityAcceptingStageInspirational LifeAdultsIronyMidstParadoxUnfoldingIndividual Life Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
“I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.” IfsWayFeelsArtPlayFootballGrewGrew UpAdultsSexyBullyingOutcastTennesseeSissySlurs Author:Justin Timberlake
“In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.” IfsNeedsWellsHelpingReligionGrowsParentAtheismChildhoodSittingAdultsExtraordinaryMediumsTargetAncestorSkepticismPacksFullnessConstructiveGuruSkullsCredulityEvangelistsQuacks Author:Richard Dawkins
“When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.” IfsMotherGrowing UpGrowingColdAdultsRubber Author:Diane Arbus
“If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None” IfsFirstsHas BeensSchoolCenturyHigh SchoolAdultsGlobal WarmingGradesGraduatesGraduating High School Author:Mark Steyn
“We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.” IfsThinkingShouldHomeGovernmentKidsSchoolTeachTaxesAdultsDollarsFeedingTax Dollars Author:Tom Colicchio
“Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.” IfsWayChildrenPersonsBehindsViolenceCrimeAdultsCommittedBegetsUnimaginable Author:Gong Ji-young
“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.” IfsWantWritingChildrenCharacterAbilityNovelEventsLetting GoDrawsAdultsResolutionMaking ChangesDidactic Author:Tim Wynne-Jones
“And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.” IfsSaidMotherSpeakActingCareersWindAdultsCaughtGuidesQuittingOne TimeI Quit Author:Mark Ruffalo