Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy Quotes

#1. We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.

Susan Neiman

#2. Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

Scott Kahn

#3. When consuming goods rather than satisfying work becomes the focus of our culture, we have created (or acquieced in) a society of permanent adolescents.

Susan Neiman

#4. Gut health is the key to overall health.

Kris Carr

#5. She took the delicate cups from his hands and filled them with the loose black

Amelia Rose

#6. Rousseau introduced the idea of false needs, and showed how the systems we live in work against our growing up: they dazzle us with toys and bewilder us with so many trivial products that we are too busy making silly choices to remember that the adult ones are made by others.

Susan Neiman

#7. We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Nick Vujicic

#8. Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way it should be, while never losing sight of the way it is, is what being a grown-upmcomes to.

Susan Neiman

#9. Most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions.

Susan Neiman

#10. Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.

Susan Neiman

#11. It's okay to write something offensive now and then. It lets you know if anyone actually reads your posts.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. I tell her all the time,'whiskey is risky and it makes girls frisky.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#13. There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Peter David

#14. We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#15. Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

James K. Polk

#16. My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Narendra Modi

#17. You never said anything. You didn't tell him when things bothered you. That doesn't make it right, but you can't not say anything and expect him to magically know what he needs to work on. It doesn't work like that.

Meg Harding

#18. It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Virginia Woolf

#19. The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.

Lionel Shriver