Growing Up Pains Quotes

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

~ Sharon Sant

Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you have to remember that doing so will lead to change. Be willing to learn from experiences, grow and live to become better not bitter.

~ Kemi Sogunle

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.

~ Dan Groat

I'll tell you something,' Arthur said. 'Until a certain age, everyone thinks their parents are heroes. Then they grow up a little, start to understand a little more of the world, and they realize their parents are just people. It destroys them, just a little bit. But it's part of becoming an adult. Everyone goes through it. You, on the other hand--your parents really are heroes, at least to everyone else. It's a bit remarkable, really. You never went through that disappointment of finding out your parents are just people.

~ Carrie Vaughn

Lord, but did he grow up nice.

~ Kelly Moran

Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets, and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

~ Paul Shepheard

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there.

~ Michelle Orange