Best Adulthood Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. In the Creation of Ea, which is the oldest song, it is said, 'Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”

“You know what adulthood is? It's making choices. And if you make the wrong one - there's no going back.”

“The day your hero steps down is the day you finally stand up.”

“Se on leikkiä. Mutta niin kuin parhaissa leikeissä aina, pohja on pimeää ja totta.”

“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.”

“We look at the world once, in childhood.”

“when we were kids”

“Of course I can cook. I'm an adult. Feeding myself is part of the deal.”

“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.”

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”