“The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.” BornTruth IsAdultsHandicaps Author:Yehuda Berg
“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.” MayChildrenMoralTaughtTruth IsAdultsPainfulTelling The TruthSensationsI Have LearnedMoral Life Book:Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're not going to be cute in the same as kids are. And they shouldn't have to be cute to deserve and merit our attention and support.” PeopleWayKidsAttentionSupportTruth IsAdultsDeserveCuteMeritKids Love Author:John Donvan
“The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.” EndsFeltChildhoodTruth IsAdultsMy FamilyIndependenceExistentialSurvivedUnreliable Book:My Beloved World Source: My Beloved World
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.” WorldRealHardValuesWaterSimpleAliveAwarenessTruth IsEssentialsConsciousAdultsSightRemindingReal ValueBefore DeathReal EducationPlain Sight Author:David Foster Wallace
“Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.” WorldChildrenPastImaginationMemoriesWorryFantasyImagineTruth IsAdultsBlindWanderEnviedOblivious Book:The World to Come Source: The World to Come