Quotes About Maturity

I beat Saratoga for the first time, and I felt that I had come of age as a horseplayer.

Over the years, you'll be amazed at how your experience has blossomed and your skills have grown.

A life marked by daily answer to prayer is evidence of spiritual maturity.

And at fifty, Less muses drowsily, you're as likable as you're going to get.

the time when any couple has found its balance, and passion has quieted from its early scream, but gratitude is still abundant; what no one realizes are the golden years.

an author too old to be fresh and too young to be rediscovered

By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab.

How can so many things become a bore by middle age—philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods—but heartbreak keeps its sting?

I think the saddest thing in the world is a twenty-five-year-old talking about the stock market.

It's that they've survived everything in life, humiliations and disappointments and heartaches and missed opportunities, bad dads and bad jobs and bad sex and bad drugs, all the trips and mistakes and face-plants of life, to have made it to fifty and to have made it here: to this frosted-cake landscape, these mountains of gold

A mature childhood can be a recipe for an immature adulthood—a principle most publicly borne out by Michael Jackson.

The pursuit of a mature life, a life that can bear the weight of image bearing, is in many ways the continual accumulating of more and more secret disciplines, until we are fully formed in the image of the one who confronted every temptation, every opportunity for the misuse of power, and always and only bore the true image in the midst of it all.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Been there, done that.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

I dont want to be anybody's mother. Im not done being a kid myself.Im way to young and so are you

How can adults expect forgiveness of children?It is an adult emotion. It is not a child's natural instinct to make compromises on behalf of a parent.

and is it not true that in our extreme youth we possess the capacity to see more clearly and absorb more intensely the beauty that lies all before us, and so much more so than in our later youth or in our adulthood, when we have been apprised of sin and its stain and our eyes have become dulled, and we cannot see with the same purity, or love so well?

You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready " "Ready." "At least I tried.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be like this.

Being eleven is a real trial. I will admit one thing, though: no matter what age you are, being the oldest of eight kids sure teaches you a lot of responsibility.

It's awfully hard helping your parents grow up. But it has to be done.

Is true freedom even possible? It certainly is in a momentary sense, as any mature practitioner of meditation knows, and those moments can increase in both number and duration with practice. Therefore, I see no reason why a person couldn't perfectly banish the illusion of the self. However, just the ability to meditate—to rest as consciousness for a few moments prior to the arising of the next thought—can offer a profound relief from mental suffering.