Browsing Quotes With Tag: aging (11)
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And secondly, a teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of full adulthood, that’s like you thinking that dressing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian. And thirdly, it’s a really weird way of looking at life to want to become an adult by imitating everything that is most catastrophic about adulthood… Where I’m concerned, just seeing my mother shooting up with her anti-depressants and sleeping tablets has been enough to inoculate me for life against that sort of substance abuse. Lastly, teenagers think that they’re adults when in fact they’re imitating adults who never really made it into adulthood and who are running away from life. It’s pathetic.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As in the parable of the wheat and the tares, the tares of the field may not be distinguishable from the wheat until they begin to bear fruit. It is the same for us as we get older. When we choose to fill our lives with good and uplifting experiences, then as we age our “fruit” will begin to show forth distinguishing us from the sad and miserable who did not choose the best for their lives.
Speaker: GaySource: Reflections on a thought given by Astrid Allred in church.Posted: 13 Jan 2009 at 1:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years; but which I had better bother about, very seriously, if I’m going to live forever. Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse. So gradually, however, that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years!
Speaker: C.S LewisSource: The Man and His MessagePosted: 13 Jan 2009 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Speaker: Paula PoundstoneSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man who is young in age may still be old and experienced, if he has lost no time.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is a smart person, young or old, who will accept advice and counsel from experienced people who know the pitfalls, the crumbling walls, and the cracking dams which bring on destruction.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We come to maturity with as little preparation fro the pressures of experience as a bookworm asked to do a ballet.
Speaker: David SeaburyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder ho smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal?
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn’t.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“An artist can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is… and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be… more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart… no matter what the merciless hours have done. Look at her, Ben.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The years bring many blessings as they come to meet us; receding,
they take many away.Speaker: HoracePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!