I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain.
Janet FitchTag: growth insight maturity young-adult coming-of-age teenager graduation
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Philip PullmanMilk for infant as liquor for adult.
Toba BetaTo live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward WeeksPeople say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.
Hugo HamiltonTag: innocence past future growing-up history identity self-discovery growth character maturity personality personal-history heritage predispositions
The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.
Sherry K. WhiteTag: maturity order kingdom-of-god apostle apostolic-gift
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.
M.J. CroanTag: growing-up maturity adolescence
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?
Diana PeterfreundTag: maturity
The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.
Colson WhiteheadTag: existence dread maturity apprehension
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
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