Adulthood - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses. — J.M. Barrie

I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back. — Alexandria Marzano - Lesnevich The Fact of a...

"You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day." "You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens." "Then what happens?" "You won't be able to find the treasure." "Will I be too old to look for it?" "No, but you'll be looking in the wrong place." — Jeanette Winterson The Powerbook

Now, why did Kitty, who was the most deceitful person on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsehood, somehow by merely suffering remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me what I had known long ago, but had forgotten in my frenzied love, that there is a draft that we must drink or not be fully human? I knew that one must know the truth. I knew quite well that when one is an adult one must raise to one's lips the wine of the truth, heedless that it is not sweet like milk, but draws the mouth with its strength, and celebrate communion with reality. — Rebecca West The Return of...

Don't you find it odd, that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try. — Ethan Hawke The Hottest...

Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the...

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