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"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
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Personal Development
"Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners."
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Personal Development
"I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside."
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Personal Development
"When you'retwenty-one, life is a roadmap.It's only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect you've beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until you'reforty are you entirely sure."
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Personal Development
"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
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Personal Development
"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."
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Personal Development
"For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress - to the future."
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Personal Development
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
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Personal Development
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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Personal Development
"It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
Communication
"You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love."
Love
"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."
Communication
"It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt."
Beauty
"In her small voice, Persephone said, "I have nothing to add." After a moment of consideration, she added, however, "If you are going to punch someone, don't put your thumb inside your fist. It would be a shame to break it."
Advice
"Sam reached his hand toward mine, and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile, he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff, and then another one. His smile widened, though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable, and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat."
Romance
"The world needs more love at first sight."
Romance
"I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.Too close.I couldn't stay away."
Desire
"So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency."
Morality
"Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her."
Belonging
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