Quotes About Maturity

Cuando somos jóvenes somos una jungla de complicaciones. Nos simplificamos a medida que envejecemos.

When you reach a certain age you don't care about the future: it is success enough to be alive: every morning you wake with triumph. (p. 91)

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

If I seem to the reader a somewhat static character he should appreciate the long conditioning of my career before retirement.

I was sunk deep in my middle age. All the same I laid my head against her breast. 'I have been happy,' I said, 'but I have seen so bored for so long.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old...

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation – but I think it is equally true of us all.

Looking at her over my whisky I thought how odd it was that felt no desire for her at all. It was as if quite suddenly after all the promiscuous years I had grown up. My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust for ever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.

Maybe I'm growing up, Thomas'. But there were tears in his voice, and he looked younger than he had ever done.

From behind he looked younger than he was in his dark thin ready-made suit a little too big for him at the hips, but when you met him face to face he looked older, the slatey eyes were touched with the annihilating eternity from which he had come and to which he went.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

At the time of great loss, people who have a mature faith give evidence of an uncommon relationship with God. And they demonstrate an uncommon inner sense of strength and poise that grows out of their confidence that such a relationship with God can never be taken away from them. Accepting loss is a slow and gradual process with steps backward as well as forward.

MY HUSBAND Ã¢â'¬Â¦ HAS become a child again. But not any sort of child I'd be proud of. Not any sort of child I would trust.

Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I've gotten older. But now I don't want to be 'sort of dating' someone. I don't want to be 'kinda hanging out' with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.

The full concept of discipleship includes sharing our faith, leading people to Christ, and helping them to mature in their faith. But somewhere along the line, the church has separated evangelism from discipleship.

We need to figure out what's best," she said. "Do you think you can give us some time, maybe wait this out? You'll be eighteen in four years.

The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.

Maybe education is wasted on the young.

Never do anything for the first time.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.

His simple, unbeautiful words were the clearest expression of what all prisoners, and everyone else who lives long enough, know well—that suffering, of every kind, is always a matter of what we've lost. When we're young, we think that suffering is something that's done to us. When we get older—when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another—we know that real suffering is measured by what's taken away from us.