Dalai Lama Quotes

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.

As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

I think I've just matured over the years.

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.

I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.

it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

...therefore all childish fear must be put away.