Quotes About Maturity

One's oldness lies not always on the years and white or gray hairs; it can also depend on the mental and physical structure.

Such freedom neither exists nor can be possible if that does not describe, with clarity of its limits in the context and concept of society's nature and religious doctrine. Just demanding freedom as a slogan is the collapse of maturity and disrespect of the majority system since no one can separate raindrops, which wherever fall and even absorb.

Tone, attitude, and character prove the greatness, maturity, and insight, not the gray hair, age, or appearance.

Training constitutes the bridge of discipline Knowledge educates the doctrine of humanity Maturity carries training and knowledge

By experiencing both victory and defeat, running away and shedding tears, a man will become a man. It's okay to cry, but you have to move on.

She was only a year or two older than Musashi, but how different they were in their experience of love. Watching him sit so stiffly, restraining his emotions, avoiding her face as though a look at her might blind him, she felt once again like a sheltered maiden experiencing the first pangs of love.

It's like this, ma'am, Michael is a fine big lad, used to a man's work and he has had a man's responsibility before now. Well, if he goes off and gets drowned, it will be because he was too silly to save himself. And if he's too silly to save himself, then it's worth no one else's while to save him, for he'll only live to get into some other trouble later on!

A woman growing stronger with age, rather than weaker. A woman who now had more than the faded remnants of youthful prettiness. A woman with a good head, who was finally learning how to use it.

He was too old to believe in fairy tales. Right didn't make might, bad things did happen to good people, and determination didn't always win the day.

Sometimes being a grown-up sucked.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

I felt experienced without feeling that I, personally, had been through anything.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

Perhaps the greatest maturity is our ability to conceive the whole universe as our container, our body as a microcosm of that universe, with no boundaries. That is more or less enlightenment. But most of us will need more finite containers for a while, even if we are beginning to learn to make do with intangible ones in a pinch. Indeed, as long as we are in bodies, enlightened or not, we need some bit of tangible safety, or at least a sense of sameness.

Children are seriously children for about a decade. But for five or more decades after that, they will be your friend - if you're fortunate to like each other.

Part of maturing into wisdom is transferring more and more of your sense of security from the tangible to the intangible containers.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it." For some of us that curriculum is the equivalent of graduate study at Oxford!

under stress, HSCs can return to the behaviors and problems of a younger age, and when feeling good HSCs can act older than their age, so the advice for an age that your child is not may still apply right now;

Or as one friend of mine put it, 'In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.