C. S. Lewis Quotes About Growing Up
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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.
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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
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The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
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