Quotes About Maturity

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.

I used to be grumpy. I am no more. I am old now. See my grey beards.

I have long been guilty of dressing too young for my age.

There are a lot of things I would take back, off the field, to be a franchise guy.

I think people need to chill out on young guys and really let them develop.

At 19, you're not really thinking about the habits you have. I wasn't. Maybe your study habits? But not your life habits.

Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.

you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.

There is a third truth, which only the mature lover will be able to hear. My spouse's criticisms about my behavior provide me with the clearest clue to her primary love language.

You can't train them to express their anger in mature ways simply by getting upset at them and forcing them to stop venting their anger.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. WINSTON CHURCHILL

Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectively at their age level. Simply sending a child to a better school or changing teachers is not the answer. We must make sure our children are emotionally ready to learn. (See chapter 9 for more on

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. SENECA

normal developmental

We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was--a temporary emotional high--and now pursue 'real love' with our spouse. That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct.

Life is a slow journey of becoming the people we choose to be.

By the time we reach adulthood, many of us have learned to deny our feelings. We are no longer in touch with our emotional selves.

learning to love each other without the euphoria of the in-love obsession.

true love cannot begin until the "in-love" experience has run its course.

The ultimate purpose for acts of service to children is to help them emerge as mature adults who are able to give love to others through acts of service. This includes not only being helpful to cherished loved ones but also serving persons who are in no way able to return or repay the kindnesses. As children live with the example of parents who serve the family and those beyond the walls of their home, they too will learn to serve.

For most of us, anger control will be something we must learn as adults, and that means unlearning old habits.