Quotes About Maturity

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Our character is a lifelong project, and perhaps the older we are, and the more fixed our shortcomings are, the more we can use inspiration to encourage our escape from the restraints of our deficiencies. The

I naïvely believed that this person actually thought along the same lines as I did—and maybe she did, for a while. In her own way, Tatum tried hard, too, but ultimately she just didn't have the wherewithal to bring it off. She was so young! We were so young. As angry as I get, I do feel for her—when I can get through the anger.

You may think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.

You're young," Mallory says. "And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you're young because you aren't old enough to know any better.

Ten, she decided, was the perfect age for a boy. J.D. did not need the constant caretaking that the other kids needed, but his heart and mind were still those of a child.

Achieving is the most important thing to you. It's more important than love, Bess said when she was fifteen years old. And wow—Ursula had felt that comment like a slap to the face. Bess has mellowed as she's gotten

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

A grown man, a father, ought to face his responsibilities in life—even if he did not wish to.

That he, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I . . it seemed no sun had shone on me.

The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.

I don't need you to give me a life, you old fool. Or haven't you noticed that I've got my own?

Watching Benedick and Tristen trade glances made her feel even more like a child, and that was not okay.

As far as Benedick was concerned, cynicism was a toy for children.

He loved her, and she didn't love him, but that didn't mean they had to be assholes about it.

Oh, little boy, when did you get so wise?

From the vantage of Cathoair's nineteen years, it was a span beyond bewildering into incomprehensible.

I don't go for the sexy bad girl thing anymore, but…damn.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?

As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.