Truly a word.
Have been reflecting on this the past couple of days thanks to @stevie_elem
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instagram.comTruly a word. Have been reflecting on this the past couple of days thanks to @stevie_elem #drmayaangelou
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility... See more
Maya Angelou: "Most people don't grow up" • Liberal Arts
Growing up is, at heart, 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 • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
“The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.”
― James Hollis, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
The battle of growing up, is also the battle of learning what’s true and what’s not. Some of us are lucky enough to grow within a womb of comfort for the formative years of our lives. Comfort that still brought pain but sheltered us from fearing an ‘end’ to life. Growing up only feels like coming to terms with having to take responsibility over
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