the much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth.
Tags: growing-up youth immaturity maturity
We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.
Irene TomkinsonTags: growing-up learning teaching maturity listening
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: grown-ups sex maturity rumors
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
AnonymousTags: growing-up maturity
Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?
—What weight?
—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?
—We are not vessels; we are missiles.
—We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.
—We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful.
Tags: life growing-up maturity
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it.
Philip PullmanTags: reading books learning children maturity
As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?
Criss JamiTags: truth thinking learning questioning writing philosophy time inquiry maturity beliefs legacy development
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
Bob SegerThe achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.
Paul MurrayTags: existence youth existentialism maturity compromise selling-out
Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.
Roger ZelaznyTags: pain free-will eternity time melancholy change maturity reconciliation the-keys-to-december
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