#adulthood

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #adulthood




Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards—the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees—have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with.


Wallace Stegner


#adulthood #life #business

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.


Adam Phillips


#childhood #religion #religion

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.


L.M. Montgomery


#growth #soul #growth

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.


Walt Disney


#adulthood #entertainment #ideals #influence #lives

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.


Thomas Szasz


#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.


Ruben Hinojosa


#adulthood #disadvantaged #force #house #one-quarter

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.


Margaret Atwood


#adulthood #peter-pan-syndrome #age

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.


C.G. Jung


#jung #psychology #religion #age

The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents, and complete sanctuary. The weeping earth itself knows how desperate is the child's need for exactly that sanctuary. How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia. Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrified revulsion. Yet we are small and as terrified as we are terrifying in our ferocious appetites.


Katherine Dunn


#age #childhood #age

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.


Margaret Atwood


#age