Growing Up

“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into what you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you’d be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become.”

-Chris Hadfield

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1000 Quotes Project

"A Selection of Curated Quotes"

955 – “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

947 – Astronaut Chris Hadfield on Life

918 – “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

916 – “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

844 – “Life is not a having and a getting. But a being and a becoming.”

806 – “… we meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”

762 – “As you grow older, you discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

716 – “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

676 – “It’s no use to go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

546 – “It’s hard when you miss people. But, you know, if you miss them it means you were lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.”