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“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
Neil Gaiman
Adulthood
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Perception
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Inner Child
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Maturity
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Human Nature
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“The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.”
Neil Gaiman
Emotions
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Adulthood
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Vulnerability
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Self Control
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Observation
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“Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”
Neil Gaiman
Adulthood
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Emotion
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Vulnerability
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Comfort
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Loss
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“Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.”
Neil Gaiman
Adulthood
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Writing
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Career Advice
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Humor
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Perspective
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“I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.”
Neil Gaiman
Adulthood
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Childhood
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Perception
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Books
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Metaphor
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“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maturity
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Adulthood
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Difficulty
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Growth
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Human Nature
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“This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adulthood
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Pessimism
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Human Condition
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Consciousness
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Philosophy
8.
“We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.”
W.H. Auden
Identity
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Growth
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Self-awareness
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Childhood
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Adulthood
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“I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Joy
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Youth
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Adulthood
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Simplicity
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Life Purpose
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“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
Aldous Huxley
Childlikeness
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Development
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Adulthood
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Personal Growth
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Convention
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Lifelong Learning
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“I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.”
Hermann Hesse
Adulthood
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Uncertainty
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Aimlessness
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Maturity
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Life Purpose
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Existential Crisis
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“The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.”
Orson Scott Card
Childhood
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Memory
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Perception
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Adulthood
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Innocence
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Psychological Insight
13.
“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
Orson Scott Card
Childhood
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Adulthood
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Perception
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Age
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Societal Norms
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Condescension
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“Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves.”
Orson Scott Card
Children
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Society
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Power
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Helplessness
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Adulthood
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Social Hierarchy
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“You couldn’t learn age, but adulthood was there for all.”
Toni Morrison
Adulthood Journey
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Growth Lessons
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Maturity Insights
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Adulthood
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Age
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Learning
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“A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:.”
John Steinbeck
Manhood
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Growth
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Responsibility
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Boyhood
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Need
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Adulthood
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“Adulthood is the realization that sometimes an abstract principle is right and good for its own sake.”
Mark Manson
Adulthood
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Responsibility
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Values
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Growth
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Ethics
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“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”
C.S. Lewis
Age
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Adulthood
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Self-acceptance
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Growth
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Reflection
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