Growing Up Quotes
Jennifer Elisabeth
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.
4148Jennifer Elisabeth
I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.
3713 Natasa Pantovic Nuit
A child has a deep longing to discover that the World is based on Truth. Respect that longing. In our attempt to help children grow into Inspired Adults, we wish them to carry the Youthfulness of their Souls, and the Wonders of Childhood into their old age.
2217 Natasa Pantovic Nuit
Every child is an individual with a different growth rate & a varied and vast potential. Respecting the talent that is hidden within each child, we respect their potential to become Kings of their Trade, or Saviors of the World to come.
3080 Jodi Picoult
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
1478 Kurt Vonnegut
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
2770 Roman Payne
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city
4889 D.K. LeVick
By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.
1479 Roman Payne
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
2557 Charlotte Eriksson
I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.
4835 Raghad Khalil
as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?
1590 Jennifer Elisabeth
Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.
3339 Jennifer Elisabeth
Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.
2375 Jennifer Elisabeth
Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.
1099 Jennifer Elisabeth
I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.
1021 Jennifer Elisabeth
This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.
3566 Jennifer Elisabeth
Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.
4722 Jennifer Elisabeth
We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.
2924 Jennifer Elisabeth
You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.
4006 Jennifer Elisabeth
Recognize that you have been chosen to be alive, right now, at this exact moment in time and know that none of that is random. There is something about you, your past or your future that is required at this exact moment in history. We need to know who you are and what you have been through.
3527 Jennifer Elisabeth
Your passions don’t have to connect to one another and no one needs to sign off on them. Passion isn’t logical… it’s only the fuel which keeps our souls alive. Let it be that simple.
3288 Jennifer Elisabeth
Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.
1091 Jennifer Elisabeth
Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it’s safe to explore along the way.
4263 Jennifer Elisabeth
Finding yourself and creating a life that feels authentic and safe is the hardest, most important work that we will ever do and for girls, especially young girls, there is no one more equipped to do this work.
3478 Jennifer Elisabeth
The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.
3565 Jennifer Elisabeth
As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more life altering that the fire burning inside of our souls for the one we want most…
4539 Jennifer Elisabeth
For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly explode back into existence by something even as small as a sunset!
2367 Jennifer Elisabeth
But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.
2987 Charlotte Eriksson
And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.
2054 Benjamin Alire Sáenz
I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.
1020 Charlotte Eriksson
Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.
4108 Augusten Burroughs
I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat.
2261 Ryū Murakami
This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.
1057 Shelley Noble
Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.
1217 Charlotte Eriksson
I think I’m learning
that sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,
but to turn away from it.
4071 Charlotte Eriksson
I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
2842 Kimberly Novosel
I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was now living that mantra.
4762 Junot Díaz
If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
3413 Neil Gaiman
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.
2357 Virginia Woolf
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
1413 C. JoyBell C.
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
2627 Maya Angelou
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.
1418 Cormac McCarthy
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
1614 Sarah Dessen
It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
3648 Stephen Chbosky
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
2777 Lauren Oliver
Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults-cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.
2323 Taylor Swift
It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.
4985 Charlotte Eriksson
I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.
1554 Masashi Kishimoto
You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.
2228 Alden Nowlan
Growing up is never straight forward.
There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that
there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that
there's nothing you can do except watch them.
4566 Charlotte Eriksson
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
3504 Anne Frank
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.
3609 Jennifer Elisabeth
I could watch him do this until morning - never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly - his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.
3275 Barbara T. Cerny
By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and intelligence. The heart of the One is pious and evil will cower. Couatl will rise.
3829 Barbara T. Cerny
And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce
4534 Barbara T. Cerny
And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly
3685 Barbara T. Cerny
And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle
4855 Dave Matthes
I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.
1994 Jennifer Elisabeth
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.
4602 Jennifer Elisabeth
For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.
2831 Jennifer Elisabeth
I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.
1055 Jennifer Elisabeth
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself - my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
3034 Jennifer Elisabeth
Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?
2976 Jennifer Elisabeth
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.
4016 Jennifer Elisabeth
Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.
4805 Jennifer Elisabeth
I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.
1196 Jennifer Elisabeth
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
2297 Jennifer Elisabeth
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
2507 Jennifer Elisabeth
I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl - this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.
2313 Jennifer Elisabeth
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
2668 Jennifer Elisabeth
I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.
1055 Jennifer Elisabeth
I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.
1222 Jennifer Elisabeth
I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.
3674 Jennifer Elisabeth
Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse - so is the love.
2631 Jennifer Elisabeth
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
3314 Jennifer Elisabeth
I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.
1137 Jennifer Elisabeth
I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years - across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.
2644 Jennifer Elisabeth
I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…
4070 Betty Smith
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
2355 Jennifer DeLucy
Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
1318 Jennifer Elisabeth
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself - here, tonight… even in this darkness.
3380 Jennifer Elisabeth
Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.
3523 Jenim Dibie
The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.
2539 Jennifer Elisabeth
Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.
4674 Charlotte Eriksson
When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.
2124 Dave Matthes
...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
4378 Charlotte Eriksson
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.
4854 Roman Payne
In the boundaryless forests,
there’re dancers of nude.
Yet in the confines of pasture,
there’s promise of food.
On which is your side?
Ô, but tarry and bide,
ere you decide,
in both do confide.
3985 Kiera Woodhull
If only
you could have witnessed how
much I have changed: sit alone
in a disused theatre and feel what
I have felt, see how the world has
transformed me, like the metamorphosis
of a caterpillar.
4109 Kemi Sogunle
Without making mistakes, there won't be lessons learned. Without getting hurt, there won't be knowledge gained. The only way we grow is by learning from the past. Always be willing to learn and grow daily. It's how we come to know who we are and what we are made of.
3657 Russell Baker
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
2829 Keith Richards
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.
1170 Carew Papritz
Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.
3961 Charlotte Eriksson
So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.
3861 Jennifer Elisabeth
Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.
3577 Charlotte Eriksson
I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
1406 Jennifer Elisabeth
He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.
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