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"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."
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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
"Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it."
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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
"Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension."
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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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"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
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"When it rains," her father said "it pours."
Philosophy
"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
Literature
"Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either."
Life
"I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way."
Family
"Go fuck yourself Judge.""Motion denied." answers the judge dryly."
Justice
"She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed."
Life
"A trial, it often came down to who had the best story."
Justice
"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies."
Truth
"We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly."
Family
"But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices."
Success
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