Quotes About Maturity

The greatest enemy of encouraging our children is anger. The more anger the parent harbors, the more anger the parent will dump on the children. The result will be children who are both anti-authority and anti-parent. This naturally means that a thoughtful parent will do all in his or her power to assuage anger—to keep it to a minimum and to handle it maturely.

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

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

they begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the "in love" obsession.

Such immaturity will manifest itself in a lack of integrity. This lack will critically affect the child's spiritual development; the less able a child is to deal with anger well, the more antagonistic will be his attitude toward authority, including the authority of God. A child's immature handling of anger is a primary reason the child will reject the parent's spiritual values.

Well, he may be long in the tooth, but one doesn't get to be leader of such a nation if he's mentally confused or doddering in old age.

Perhaps when I am grown I will not know anything. Perhaps that is the way it works, the way it is with growing. When you grow, you start to unlearn things.

But life has a way of pulling the rug out from under you just when you need it least, which is what they like to call growing, I guess, but as far as I'm concerned you can have it. It seems like everything they call growing up has to jerk your guts out and just about wreck you and I've never been able to understand why that's supposed to be good for you.

I thought I was good after a few years. After ten years I realized I was still improving.

Mature masculinity expresses itself not in the demand to be served, but in the strength to serve and to sacrifice for the good of woman.

Mature masculinity does not have to initiate every action, but feels the responsibility to provide a general pattern of initiative.

First, he claims many people feel a need for personal growth in a Christian way of life.

You cannot grow without growing inside.

Before I had so much as opened any of the other volumes, I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.

that's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.

I knew that I was a child, and that no man can be a man who is not.

Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen?

Truly, it is said, age has great advantage over youth. In age is both wisdom and experience. Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Postajemo mudri ne zbog toga što se prise?amo naše prošlosti, ve? što postajemo odgovorni za našu budu?nost.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom