Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

I'm trying not to be a kid all the time, but it's hard.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

You've got to grow up sometime.

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.