Maya Angelou: "Most people don't grow up" • Liberal Arts
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Maya Angelou: "Most people don't grow up" • Liberal Arts
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. 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 still innocent and shy as magno... See more
A quote from Letter to My Daughter
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Most of humanity behaves like other animals: Life is just growing old—not growing up. Growing up and growing old are totally different experiences.
Osho • Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence
Almost Nobody Wants to Grow Up. We think it’s too hard. We would rather focus on what’s wrong with us and why we can’t do anything about it. We don’t want to take care of ourselves because that means giving up the wish to be taken care of by someone else. “I want my mother to do it. She should have done it but she didn’t. I’m going to stay stuck ri
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