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“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
Max Lerner
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise”
Alden Nowlan
“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.”
The Wonder Years
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.”
Beverly Mitchell
“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.”
Walt Disney
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
Tom Stoppard
“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”
M. Scott Peck
“Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.”
Dr. James C. Dobson
