Quotes About Maturity

Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable.

When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.

Her real life was underway, with all of its scratches and dents. Like the rest of us forty to forty five, she was something of a used book; intact but a bit battered around the edges.

I decided in high school that I wasn't going to get married too soon. I'd forgotten that you can also wait too long, and then the only candies left in the box are the squished ones, rejected for their questionable insides. And if I'm honest, I'd have to count myself among those with questionable insides.

Well, I was just going to say that it seems one of the things you have to do in order to finally grow up is to let that what-my-parents-did-to-me stuff go.

Eighteen. The word is a poem.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she felt both shy and critical...

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering--no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, "What was I thinking?" and the answer is usually: You weren't. Psychologists call that state of deluded madness "narcissistic love." I call it "my twenties.

Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds becomes mature enough for sex.

Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones.

Of course nobody is required to stand in the field of honor...If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it may be painful.

She loved it even more than ever, perhaps, because now, as an adult, she finally had the perspective to appreciate the value of her own joy.

While it's lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it's dangerous to be childish.

Children don't have any honor, you see, and they aren't expected to, because it's too difficult for them. It's too painful. But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged.

when I was nineteen years old and an idiot

It's only that I've waited so long to grow up, but now there's nothing worth growing up for.

Perfection takes time but comes for sure

It's only that I've waited so long to grow up, but now there's nothing worth growing up for," she said. "Just all this fighting, fighting, fighting, and working, working, working. It makes a person weary.

Of course, nobody is required to stand in the field of honor," Olive continued. "If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it