Quotes About Maturity

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana."

I think older women still have a full life.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

But also, as you go through life, you pick up shreds of things, and eventually you are able to fit them together

Neither am I. A grown man should be able to acknowledge a sincerely offered apology and converse in sentences consisting of more than five words. Good day, Dr. Lee.

Mr. Ross and his love interest, our English teacher, Miss Wannamaker, had passed up that magic number long ago. Closer to fifty-two, Mr. Ross was a widower.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Whichever way I went, there would be sadness and a sense of loss. Was this a part of growing up—the agony of making such choices? If so, I wanted to stay a child forever. —Ian Carras

One day I woke up and I was the oldest person in every room.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

The son becomes the father of the man.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. —Karl Lagerfeld

Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.

Gifts are free; maturity is expensive.

Not understanding is OK. Restricting our spiritual life to what we understand is not. It is immaturity at best. Such a controlling spirit is destructive to the development of a Christ-like nature. God responds to faith but will not surrender to our demands for control.

When you put a revelation into practice, you won't get it 100 percent right. You might not even get it 50 percent right. But you will learn, and you will grow into a level of maturity you wouldn't otherwise have.

Many new believers stay immature because they never progress beyond the revelation that they are sinners saved by grace.

Unfortunately, pulpit ministry has long been seen as the measure of true devotion to Christ, or worse yet, it has been seen as the measure of spiritual maturity.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds.

people don't ever get fixed. They either mature, or they just keep getting more bent up the rest of their lives.

The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development.