{"quotes":[{"text":"Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["change","different-point-of-view","grown-up","opinion","others-perspective"],"id":1874,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.","author":"Cornelia Funke","tags":["funke","grown-up","wish"],"id":37917,"author_id":"Cornelia+Funke"},{"text":"When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adult","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","brother","brotherhood","brothers","child","childhood","children","conditional","grown-up","grown-ups","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","kid","kids","motivation","motivational","motivational","neighborhood","neighbors","philosophy","unconditional","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":40465,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["grown-up","maturity"],"id":77009,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming so often, they create their own little world, a world with lots of limitations. What then do most adults teach to their children? ‘No’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming.’ So, what can you learn from a child today…?","author":"James A. Murphy","tags":["adults","attention","child","children","create","curious","daydreaming","everything","explore","fascinating","grown-up","hearing","kids","limitations","naturally","surroundings","teach","today","world"],"id":110428,"author_id":"James+A.+Murphy"},{"text":"She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["abstraction","beauty","child","child-s-mind","grown-up","grown-ups","imperative","ursula-monkton"],"id":166442,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.","author":"Unarine Ramaru","tags":["advise","elders","grown-up","learning","respect","subtle-ways","trust","young"],"id":192158,"author_id":"Unarine+Ramaru"},{"text":"It's like I'm dreaming of the imaginary friend Katie and I had when we were little. She'd been so real to us as kids. We each remembered Anna, that's what we'd called her, just like we remembered bits of our parents. But now, in this dreamscape of Paradise Lost, our imaginary third twin has all grown up.","author":"Beatrice Rose Roberts","tags":["canada","cape-breton","childhood","coming-of-age","death","foster","grown-up","imaginary-friend","nostalgia","parents","tulpa","twin"],"id":199707,"author_id":"Beatrice+Rose+Roberts"},{"text":"Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.","author":"Ann Brashares","tags":["celebrated","crumbs","different","eating","feast","forever","grown-up","life","old-self","something","tenaciously","worshipped","years"],"id":239032,"author_id":"Ann+Brashares"},{"text":"Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["games","grown-up","hurt","little-girls","petals-on-the-wind","quote","v-c-andrews"],"id":269923,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}