Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Even though you want to try to, never grow up

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up — that growing is an ever ongoing process.

You don't grow up, you grow old.

The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down.

The same goes for us: no emotional vulnerability, no growth.

Well I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.

Very few people grow up

Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.

He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Defensiveness never precedes growth, it stunts it.

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing. 104

But it didn’t seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.