Quotes About Maturity

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

That's a girl's life for the rest of her days- somewhere between a lollipop and shots.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

Often there are sexual difficulties. In addition, as the years pass, you may grow and develop a stronger sense of identity. If you become more assertive and no longer willing to stay in a subjugated relationship, your relationship must either change to adapt to your greater maturity or it must end.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups.

There will never be enough knowledge to fill the cracks of Christian maturity without the fruit of selfless service manifested in our lives.

Growing up means curbing appetites, shifting from "me" to "we," understanding private choices have social consequences and public outcomes.

I turned forty this year. Forty! Which is so weird because I've always been young. I've been young my whole life, as a matter of fact. No matter how I dissect this, I've aged out of the "young" category and graduated to the "middle" group. My brain feels confused about this because I am so juvenile. I make up my own words to hip-hop songs and quote Paul Rudd as a parenting strategy. Surely I am a preteen.

If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups. These are not the adults we want to launch, nor are they the Snowflakes we want our kids to marry. We cannot be the mothers-in-law for these people, oh my gosh. If grown-ups expect sandwich dolphins from their spouses, bosses, churches, friends, and children, this will all be a disaster.

You are such a young and childish country, believing that one can better understand the injuries of the past by wallowing in them and analyzing their causes. You do not know enough to understand that the only way to heal a wound is to leave it alone. To let sleeping dogs lie, as it were, rather than enthusiastically kicking them as

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence