Quotes About Maturity

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth" (1 John 1:8). It seems God leads us through failure toward maturity, rather than doing whatever is needed for us to move past ongoing failure.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough

she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.

Ikey had passed his seventieth year and considered anyone under fifty to be callow, at best.

When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.

But I ain't young enough to count on what I think bein' right, either, an' I ain't fool enough to figure on things turning out the way I expect 'em to.

Taking a lifetime to grow up.

Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else.

Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else - Jacob

Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.

Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up.

La terapia es una nueva industria que debe su onerosa existencia a la idea festiva de que la ambivalencia puede curarse, la madurez es una adaptación a las condiciones del entorno y la indocilidad una forma de neurosis.

Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer? I nod, numb and weary. 'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.

I'll regret it for the rest of my life, Rush, but I was fucking seventeen years old. We're morons at seventeen. We think everything we do is right-- that nothing has a consequence.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them.