“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval,
instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To
be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is
grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are
the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence
they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want
to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood
this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been
ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them
openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the
fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”- C.S. Lewis
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." - Stephen Hawking
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." - Kurt Vonnegut
Deep and meaningful thoughts...I especially like (and agree with) what Lewis says about being more comfortable with yourself and what you enjoy as you grow older, and caring less how other people perceive those interests.
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