God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last and always.
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
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.
We didn’t grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn’t matter, because we will be becoming something greater.
You can’t be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.
Growing up is important, and I’ve got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.
And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam’s nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge.
Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn...
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here.
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.
Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. “Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow.