Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
I think I am an adult.
To be adult is to be alone.
I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down.