Quotes About Maturity

Boys and men are the same people, in different clothes. Boys wear short trousers and men wear long trousers. But they are just the same if you take their trousers off.

And the difference was this, she mused: those who are twenty don't know what it is like to be forty, whereas those who are forty know what it is like to be twenty. It was a bit like discussing a foreign country with somebody who has never been there. They are prepared to listen, but it's not quite real for them.

Yes, wisdom: that was something that came to everybody, although it came in varying quantities and at different times.

Es ist ein Zeichen geistiger Reife, seine Meinung zu ändern, wenn man merkt, dass man im Unrecht ist.

But being a parent hurt—that was part of the arrangement. It hurt and then suddenly it did not hurt any longer, and a loving and reasonable person emerged from the teenage shell, just as the colourful emperor moth emerges from the chrysalis of the mopane worm.

just like the affairs of the adult world--complicated rules and a history.

And the memory made her humble; for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni," she asked, "do you think that our souls grow as we get older?" He did not answer immediately, but when he did, she thought his answer quite perfect. "Yes," he said. "Our souls get wider. They grow like the branches of a tree—growing outwards. And

But then one thing you did learn with the passage of time was not to ask too many questions. That was the difference, she decided, between being twenty and being forty. That, and other things, of course.

Saying sorry does not make you look small—it makes you look big." "I think so too," said Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. "But some people are small inside, and if you're small inside, you can't be big outside. It just won't come to you.

They are not much use to anybody, really. It is very sad." He smiled. "And then, suddenly, at seventeen—sometimes at age sixteen—they grow out of all of that and they become nice once more, just as they were before this terrible thing called adolescence happened to them.

fruto de mis años, marchitos antes de florecer (a Piotr Aleksandrovich Pletnev)

Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man

If nature didn't whittle down your network to a smaller number of strongly forged connections, you would never become an adult. You would remain a permanent child, frozen in sensory overload.

Cualquiera que mida su progreso en ser como Cristo solamente en términos del crecimiento de su comunión con Dios está haciendo una medición incompleta. La madurez espiritual también incluye el crecimiento en la fraternidad con los hijos de Dios.

And in my own pastoral and personal Christian experience, I can say that I've never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.

Wisdom grows along with age. When we are young we feel we can conquer anything. As we age we realize it's a journey, with all its victories and defeats, sorrows and joys, that matter the most.

When it comes to age, it's all about the quality of the preservation,

Now, regardless of how she looked on the outside, inside she still felt fifty. Why did no one understand that?

Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,

primicerius? He was young, it was

Es su derecho de nacimiento tener una vida poderosa, pacifica y significativa. Aunque pasar por momentos dolorosos y obstaculos es una manera de lograr la madurez espiritual, no es la unica. Usted verdaderamente puede lograr la iluminacion con una vida pacifica, porque usted ya esta iluminado ahora mismo.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.