Blue Eyes Covered

34 Quotes That Will Help You Conquer Your Fear Of 'Adulting'

Read these when you're unsure of the path
Jane Drinkard
June 8, 2016
“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tagged: ENFP, Change, Movement, Moving On, Places
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”
— Aldous Huxley, Island
Tagged: Life, Emotion, Trying, Grief, Pain, ENFP
“The ache to remember what it is to be alive, is just as beautiful today.”
— Orooj-e-Zafar, When Your Body Smiles
Tagged: Inspirational, Self love, strength, Life, Perspective, Spoken Word
“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”
— Alain de Botton, Saviors
Tagged: Philosophy, The Person You'll Become
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
— Mark Twain, Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
Tagged: Education, Perspective, Ignorance, Knowledge, Growing Pains, School
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Tagged: beauty, Colours, Overwhelming Beauty
“I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Sad, Finding Yourself, Relationships
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: The Art of Awareness
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Escapism, Growing Pains, Finding Yourself
“This world is bullshit.”
— Fiona Apple, 1997 MTV Video Music Awards
Tagged: World
“We are all going forward. None of us are going back.”
— Richard Siken, Crush
Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Moving Forward, Life, Progress
“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”
— David Richo, Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
Tagged: Trust, Relationships, Self-Trust, Love, Intimacy, vulnerability
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: Growth, Innocence
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
— J.K Rowling, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
Tagged: Harry Potter, Youth, Ageism, Wisdom, Millenials
“Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Moon And More
Tagged: Change, Stagnancy, Growth, Chaos, Timing
“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Summer, Growing Up, Hope, Future
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: willpower, Endings, Relationships, Heartbreak
““Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -”
— Emily Dickinson, "Hope" is the thing with feathers
Tagged: Hope
“Learning to sleep in new places was an ability you were supposed to lose as you grew older, but I never had it.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Sleep, Growing Up, Change, ability
“I flipped through my identities like a card catalog, selecting the one that fit that day, that hour, that minute. I learned how to disappear.”
— Stacy Pershall, Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
Tagged: Indetity, Finding Yourself, Growing Pains, Personality
“I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Tired, Tired Of Being Tired, Enclosed, Breaking Free, Craving Escape, Feeling Stuck
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Tagged: Future, Rebuilding Your Life, Life, Change
“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”
— Shannon Alder, 300 Questions To Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
Tagged: How To Think, Miracles, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy
“Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell. We passed the bottle back and forth as I waited for the cab.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Goodness, Life, Drinking, Relationships
“Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt.”
— Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Tagged: Youth, rebel, newness, Lust
“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Tagged: humanity, Paradox, misfit, Self-awareness
“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
— Garrison Keillor, Pontoon
Tagged: Age, Answers, Philosophy, Life, maturity, Understanding
“What seeks you when you are not seeking, is the universe's way of speaking to you without speaking.”
— Jennifer Sodini, Speak
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence, a surprise.”
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
— Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy