Quotes About Maturity

Children cannot grow to psychological maturity in an atmosphere of unpredictability, haunted by the specter of abandonment. Couples cannot resolve in any healthy way the universal issues of marriage—dependency and independency, dominance and submission, freedom and fidelity, for example—without the security of knowing that the act of struggling over these issues will not itself destroy the relationship.

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing. As will be evident, these are not complex tools whose application demands extensive training. To the contrary, they are simple tools, and almost all children are adept in their use by the age of

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This

Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

In my personal struggle for maturity, I am gradually becoming aware of new insights, which tend as if of the themselves to want to slip away from me.

Na verdade, Capitu ia crescendo às carreiras, as formas arredondavam-se e avigoravam-se com grande intensidade; moralmente, a mesma coisa. Era mulher por dentro e por fora, mulher à direita e à esquerda, mulher por todos os lados, e desde os pés até à cabeça.

Não vinha. Capitu pedia-o em suas orações, eu mais de uma vez dava por mim a rezar e a pedi-lo. Já não era como em criança; agora pagava antecipadamente, como os alugueres da casa.

Each season in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one, which will in turn be corrected again, until we reach the definitive edition, which the editor donates for free to the worms.

Aos quinze anos, há até certa graça em ameaçar muito e não executar nada.

em idade de casar, que somos crianças, criançolas, – já ouvi dizer criançolas.

Não sei se alguma vez tiveste dezessete anos. Se sim, deves saber que é a idade em que a metade do homem e a metade do menino formam um só curioso.

Não sei se alguma vez tiveste dezessete anos. Se sim, deves saber que é a idade em que a metade do homem e a metade do menino formam um só curioso.

Todas as noivas têm quinze anos.

Um coqueiro, vendo-me inquieto e adivinhando a causa, murmurou de cima de si que não era feio que os meninos de quinze anos andassem nos cantos com as meninas de quatorze; ao contrário, os adolescentes daquela idade não tinham outro ofício, nem os cantos outra utilidade.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.

The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.