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#1

“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#2

“Becoming is better than being”
― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

tags: 1960s

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#3

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

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#4

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing

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#5

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
― Blaise Pascal

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#6

“To understand is to forgive.”
― Pascal

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#7

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: adulthood, childhood

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#8

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

tags: adulthood, humor

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#9

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: adulthood, growing-up, life, maturity

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#10

“People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.”
― Bryan White

tags: adulthood, childhood

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#11

“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

tags: adulthood, aging, childhood, play

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#12

“During childhood life is like dancing and later life becomes wrestling.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: adolescence, adulthood, being-adult, childhood, children, life, life-struggle, parents, young, youth

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#13

“Haven't you noticed grown-ups aren't perfect?" asked Mrs. Quimby. "Especially when they're tired."
"Then how come you expect kids to be so perfect all the time?" demanded Ramona.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

tags: adulthood, childhood, perfection, ramona-quimby

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#14

“When I was nineteen years old, I was babysitting a little five-year-old girl. She kept drawing picture after picture, and as I saw there watching her draw, I asked, "Do you want to be an artist when you grow up?"

"What do you mean?"

"An artist," I replied. "Is that what you want to be when you grow up?"

She looked at me, confused, and said, "But I already am an artist."

She was right. She didn't need to wait to grow up in order to be an artist. She already was one. Childhood is not a rehearsal for life; childhood is life and children are already whole people.”
― Kristina Kuzmic, Hold On, But Don't Hold Still

tags: adulthood, artist, childhood, occupation

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#15

“Was this the epiphany of adult life, that it actually wasn’t exciting and vast in possibilities, but was in fact as enclosed and proscribed as childhood?”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Wife

tags: adulthood

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#16

“Kids want to be grown-ups and grown-ups want to be kids.”
― Trevor Carss

tags: adulthood, child-development, childhood, personal-development

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#17

“I can personally testify that roughly 90% of my adult life has been spent on Google trying to figure out how to do stuff.”
― Josh Gunderson, You're Doing It Wrong: A Mixtape Memoir

tags: adulthood, adulthood-humor, humor, millenial

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#18

“The most childish thing is to believe that you are an adult now...”
― Himanshu Bisht

tags: adulthood, childhood, life, woodcutters-quotes

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#19

“Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.”
― Gregory Maguire

tags: adult, adulthood, carefree, careless, elphaba, elphaba-thropp, glinda, nessarose, niir, niir-thropp, son-of-a-witch, wicked, wicked-witch-of-the-west, witch

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#20

“I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world." ... I wonderes if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: adulthood, childhood

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#21

“I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a B
up from a C
and my father said,
"if you can get a C
you can get a B,
if you can get a B
you can get an A."-
I got an A
and my father said,
"grades don't mean anything.”
― Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture

tags: depressing, father, grades, sad

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#22

“Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning. The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

tags: education, grades, grading-systems, learning, public-school, school-system, teaching

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#23

“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

tags: alice-in-wonderland, inspirational-quotes, lewis-carroll

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#24

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

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#25

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.”
― Kurt Cobain

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#26

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: morning

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#27

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#28

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

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#29

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#30

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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