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“He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.”

Ifs Way Years Young Felt Waiting Five Adults Illness Conviction Mental Illness Insane Drunk Hated Five Years Hallucinations

Book:For The Win

Source: For The Win

“The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?”

Way Giving Mean Ideas Self Boys Advice Like You Adults Yeah Being Yourself Fourth

Author:John Green

“His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.”

Ifs Way Mind Lying Asks Father Answers Knowing Adults Empowered Unimaginable Rudeness

Book:The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

Source: The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

“I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Wells I Can Kids Adults Excited Best Way

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.”

Way Children Conversation Jokes Adults Youngest Child

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.”

World Way Needs Believe Together Lying Fronts Identity Despair Adults Mirrors Deceit Our World Fragile Cloaks Ephemeral

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.”

Ifs Knows Way Kind Has Beens Matter Facts Use Problem Today Too Much Dog Mines Approach Adults Train Sticks Population Educated Lifts Select Matter Of Fact

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.”

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.”

People Knows Way Feels Should Might Wanted Purpose Grew Prove Grew Up Adults Absolutes Aim Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.”

Way Want Moments Dies Childhood Ambition Adults

Book:In One Person: A Novel

Source: In One Person: A Novel

“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”

Men World Way Different Doubt Childhood Understood Adults Machines Curiosity Abandoned Mechanic Matthew Inspectors Not Friends Without A Trace

Author:Arundhati Roy

“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”

Way Want Needs May Form Mother Wish Understanding Psychology Demand Understood Adults Meetings Nostalgia Violent Hook Vengeance Grudge Vengeful

Author:Adam Phillips

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”

Way Children Different Space Walks Steps Path Walking Adults Property Different Ways Dozen Fence Creeps Lanes Space Between

Author:Neil Gaiman

“You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.”

Way Should Sometimes Running Kids Adults

Author:Ally Carter

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Way Feels Art Play Football Grew Grew Up Adults Sexy Bullying Outcast Tennessee Sissy Slurs

Author:Justin Timberlake

“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.”

Ifs Way Children Persons Behinds Violence Crime Adults Committed Begets Unimaginable

Author:Gong Ji-young

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