Quotes About Maturity

Immaturity isn't something to aspire to, but childlike faith is a valuable commodity in God's Kingdom.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Sometimes being an adult doesn't prevent you from making terrible choices

These kids have no innocence anymore

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourselves.

The world will not get better, only we get and grow better.

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.

We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.

Fall, like the season, like right now. Fall is the transition period between summer and winter. Summer is fun and carefree and cheery. Winter is also beautiful, but it's harder, not as carefree. You're no longer a child, and you're not really an adult yet. You're going through a transition, just like the seasons.

It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I wasn't vegetarian yet -- I was young and my conscience still under construction. (Kelly Johnson)

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

Mature spirituality requires sobriety of awareness.

When I am touched by love, karma collected over everystage of my life is influenced simultaneously. The child's longing to be protected, the adolescent's confused longing, the adult's mature desire- all are stirred. The wounds of not being loved in the past reach out to be healed, and the heart's tender hopes flow again.

Every child needs as much mature love as you can give. What makes love mature - and not just adult - is the conscious spiritual intention behind it. The birth of a baby launches us as teachers of spirit. Afterward we rely on the grace of love, which guides our intentions in the years to come. Spirit lifts us above our individual fallibility, and in doing that it teaches our children the deepest, most valuable lessons.

I got lost sorting out the ways I had aged out of the situation I was in.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

The man following her had been handsome in his youth, but time had clawed its signature across his features.

Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow.