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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about growing up that will inspire you in maturing and moving on as a person.
What Is Growing Up Sayings
1. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others” – Virginia Woolf
2. “Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you’ll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there’s nothing you can do except watch them” – Alden Nowlan
3. “Growing up is the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals” – Bell Hooks
4. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change” – Cassandra Clare
5. “The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes a long time and most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself” – Catherynne M. Valente
6. “Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you’re given” – Guy Browning
Short Quotes About Growing Up
7. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are” – E. E. Cummings
8. “Growing up is hard. Otherwise everyone would do it” – Kim Harrison
9. “A grownup is a child with layers on” – Woody Harrelson
10. “Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up” – Bernard Kelvin Clive
11. “Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun” – Nina Dobrev
12. “Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size” – Amy E. Spiegel
Funny Quotes About Growing Up
13. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional” – Chili Davis
14. “The trick is growing up without growing old” – Casey Stengel
15. “Let’s learn to grow up, before we grow old” – Martin H. Manser
16. “When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing” – Tom Robbins
17. “Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying” – Nikki Giovanni
18. “Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples” – J.M. Barrie
19. “You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going” – P.J. O’Rourke
20. “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public” – Bryan White
Quotes On The Hardest Part Of Growing Up
21. “You must pay the penalty of growing-up. You must leave fairyland behind you” – L.M. Montgomery
22. “Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up” – Daniel Black
23. “That’s the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same. You see the faults in everything. Including yourself” – Austin Chant
24. “One curious thing about growing up is that you don’t only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents’ and grandparents’ lives come to you” – Philip Pullman
25. “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” – Walt Disney
Quotes About Growing Up And Changing
26. “Growing up, we are told many things; one being, you can do anything. But somewhere between child and adult, things change” – Julie Hebert
27. “If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again” – Mary Beth Danielson
28. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on” – Nicholas Sparks
29. “The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt” – Max Lerner
30. “Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging” – Maya Angelou
31. “Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It’s about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever” – Dylan O’Brien
32. “Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart” – Beverley Ann Mitchell
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