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The Difference Between Grown-Ups and “Adult-Children”

By Martha Beck — 2020

Still clinging to the fears and fury of childhood? You can unarrest your development once and for all.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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