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#1

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank

tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility

2798 likes

#2

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: aging, growing-up

1687 likes

#3

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: change, growing-up, life

984 likes

#4

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: growing-up, illusions, life

2058 likes

#5

“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disillusionment, growing-up, narrow-mindedness, open-mindedness, wonder

382 likes

#6

“Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
― Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State

tags: adulthood, childhood, dreams, ethan-hawke, follow-your-dreams, growing-up, judgement

877 likes

#7

“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

tags: growing-up, imagination, pretend, school

155 likes

#8

“Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Limit

110 likes

#9

“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”
― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon

tags: growing-up

287 likes

#10

“Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.”
― M.J. Croan

tags: adolescence, growing-up, maturity

273 likes

#11

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: maturity

256 likes

#12

“Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade

tags: anita-blake, maturity, skin-trade

56 likes

#13

“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”
― Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl

tags: age, maturity

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