Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.Lois McMaster Bujold
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.C.S. Lewis
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.John C. Maxwell