“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.” WayShouldChildrenDoeStillsBookSoulFeelingsJobsNightWishFeltNovelTakenStupidNormalAdultsTwentiesSevenKillingHatedUsaUsualRescuePublishersDay And NightManuscriptsDamnationDrudgery Author:Tanith Lee
“We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.” ThinkingWantFeelsLooksBookSoulStoriesWalksGreaterWrittenStreetsAdultsDepthForgottenTrackCreditTeenagerRescueUnderestimatePerilToddler Author:Markus Zusak
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenDoeHas BeensSoulBlackWhiteMagicPoetAdultsForgottenBonesPrisonerBlack PeopleDeclineContinentsCowboyWeepingBuffaloSettlersCowgirls Author:Tom Robbins
“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.” YearsPersonsHas BeensSoulEndsHappensYoungCoursesProcessFourTeachingChangedCollegeAdultsYoung AdultAgentsFour YearsCollege Education Author:Leroy S Rouner
“I believe becoming an adult isn't a good thing for a guy. I think that guys should not forget about its youthful soul. So I want to say that I still have a heart of a baby or an elementary school kid.” ThinkingWantShouldBelieveHeartStillsSoulKidsSchoolGuyI BelieveForgetBabyBecomingAdultsGood ThingsThat GuyElementary SchoolBecoming An Adult Author:Daesung
“Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.” SoulGrewGrew UpAdultsMy SoulCleveland Author:Marc Edwards
“What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.” NeedsHeartSoulWholeYoungChurchGenerationsAdultsRaisesYoung AdultBarsHeart And SoulRaising The BarGreatest Generation Author:M. Russell Ballard
“If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.” IfsMindFirstsSoulSpiritHumanityCommonPossibilityPlanetsDevelopmentAdultsBlowFree WillMatureCommon Experience Author:Ken Wilber
“The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.” ChildrenSoulPlayCallingTrainingAdultsSubstance Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.” WayYearsHas BeensSoulEasyRealizingResponsibilityLessonsAdultsTaking ResponsibilitySoul SearchingEasy WayLesson Learned Author:Nicole Richie
“...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.” MenShouldSoulEnjoyAdultsFilledSakeObviousPreparationImaginaryEnjoy LifeCheerfulMirth Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.” FirstsTwoSoulMomentsEyeAgeCreationAdultsWindowEssenceProtectionIntimacyInnocenceVulnerabilityJustifyStillnessQuantityRefugeCamouflageSunbeams Author:Marianne Wiggins
“The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.” PeopleThinkingMeanChildrenLittlesDoeSoulMatterFeelingsCareParentClassVirtueBloodAdultsRegardBottomOur TimeDislikeEntitledIsmsDoes It Matter Author:Thomas Hardy
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.” YearsBelieveChildrenStillsBookSoulDoneStoriesJoyReadingForgetMiddleStageReaderAdultsImpactMy SoulGood BookI Still Believe Author:Diane Setterfield