Adulthood Quotes

seafoam*
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September 11, 2017 7:22pm UTC

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rowing up is just a series
of realizations – either
FASCINATING OR DISCONCERTING.

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seafoam*
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March 10, 2017 8:21pm UTC

It’s funny. I still feel like a little girl.
I’m still looking around to check and
see what other people are doing to
make sure I’m not completely different;
I’m still looking around for help, hoping
for a quick nudge and a whisper of advice.
But I can’t seem to be able to catch
anybody’s eye. Nobody else around me
seems to be looking around and wondering
what to do. Why is it that I feel like I’m
the only person who is confused and
concerned about the choices I’ve made and
where I’m headed? (( Cecilia Ahern ))

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seafoam*
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December 22, 2016 8:46pm UTC

“Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”

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seafoam*
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November 1, 2016 8:56pm UTC

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. They mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.
Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.
Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”
Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe. Life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

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seafoam*
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August 24, 2016 3:11pm UTC

sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but ‘Mom’s’ probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.

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seafoam*
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June 25, 2016 11:06am UTC

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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seafoam*
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June 7, 2016 8:44pm UTC

“
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
—C.S. Lewis
”

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seafoam*
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March 26, 2016 1:06am UTC

THE KIDS CLIMB THE ROOF
TO DREAM DREAM DREAM
ABOUT THEIR LIVES ON THE
GROUND. THE ADULTS STAY
ON THE GROUND TO DEAL
DEAL DEAL WITH THEIR
LIVES ON THE GROUND.
Image is from tumblr, photographer unknown.

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seafoam*
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March 3, 2016 6:27pm UTC

“
You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.
—Louis C.K.
”

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seafoam*
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November 17, 2015 7:08pm UTC

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.
— Maya Angelou

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gab*
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October 31, 2015 3:33pm UTC

when i was younger, i wanted nothing more but to grow up and to be mature. now, nothing terrifies me more than becoming an adult and being responsible for myself.

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Morgan*
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September 17, 2015 3:58pm UTC

What's really scary about life is that your ability to succeed revolves around your capability as a teenager. What's scarier is that how you feel as a child contributes to how you act as a teenager.

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seafoam*
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June 7, 2015 10:00am UTC

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

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Michelle Parker *
posted a quote
September 26, 2014 9:22am UTC

yes hello 911 i’m being forced into adulthood and i don’t like it send help

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capsized*
posted a quote
March 31, 2014 12:15am UTC

reason to not become an adult
•you can’t use the ‘my mum said i can’t go’ excuse to blow someone off

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SANDD*
posted a quote
January 28, 2014 9:15am UTC

I dont know the actual meaningof maturity but for me, maturity
is when a person hurts you and
you try to understand their situation
rather than hurting them back.<3

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iLL-Legal Alien👽*
posted a quote
December 2, 2013 7:47pm UTC

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MAKE
LIFE CHOICES WHEN I
STILL COUNT ON MY FINGERS
AND SING THE ALPHABET TO
REMEMBER WHAT LETTERS
GO NEXT???

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ajxo*
posted a quote
November 18, 2013 8:09pm UTC

two days until my 18th birthday :D

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AndTheDarknessReignedUponThem
posted a quote
October 30, 2013 9:42pm UTC

“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.”
-The Winter of the Air

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Sole
posted a quote
August 18, 2013 1:45pm UTC

I want to grow up, but at the same time,
I want to hold on to my youth and never let go.

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