Quotes About Maturity

first book of Corinthians: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection. That's the basic motif of the universal hero's journey—leaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth into a richer or mature condition.

When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,"Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away."

Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time

To my mind, college is the place to expand, to overcome prejudices, to look at things through one's own eyes. Here the boy first stands upon his own feet. Hitherto he has been in the hands of others to mould, now he must mould himself. He must cut loose from old ideas.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day." But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going

El amor es como una planta o un animal. Vive y se desarrolla. Nace, crece, envejece y muere.

Crying is no use, you know. We never cry, even though we aren't men yet, like you

I miei figli non giocano. Cosa fanno? Si preparano ad attraversare la vita. Dico: Io la vita l'ho attraversata e non ho trovato nulla.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I was fourteen years old then and a person can feel old and wise at that age even when he really had no idea, and what he took for wisdom was only a precocious intuition arrived at without humility, just a little shit working things out for himself.

Divorce often forces people to grow up. You get over your divorce by confronting the kind of relationship there was in the marriage. You realize there aren't any victims. You recognize your own complicity in the breakup. Then you learn how to carry on a relationship that works. You can't do this intellectually; you learn through experience.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: HIDE the corpse, DON'T bare your heart, DO make assumptions about the motives of others.

just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly doing all these things to you. I

The chemachen who comes calling for a subscription one morning is no more than a boy, the growth on his upper lip so sparse that each hair could be named after an apostle.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

Gaining insight and perspective is not about the number of years you've lived. It's about the number of lessons you've learned.

The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.

Nonetheless, he is a boy. Despite his talents, a boy. And a boy is more idealistic than a man, and high ideals in the hands of children can be as dangerous as weapons. He thought he was in the right, and because he thought he was in the right, he thought there would be an exception. That's that.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.