Quotes About Maturity

Thirty-four years old. That seemed ancient in some regards

Perspective. When you're young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we're all just the same kids wearing older bodies.

Dalinar said. "You've grown, soldier. Few men have the wisdom to realize when they need help. Fewer still have the strength to go get it. Well done. Very well done.

Perspective. When you are young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we are all just the same kids wearing older bodies.

New tastes are like new ideas ... the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

To grow to adulthood as a social species, including humans, is not to become autonomous and solitary, it's to become the one on whom others can depend.

Madeleine L'Engle: "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.

We need to be the adults we want our children to be.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

The mature Christians I have met along the way are those who have failed and have learned to live gracefully with their failure.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal.

he progressed not by always making right decisions but by responding appropriately to wrong ones.

The mature Christians I have met along the way are those who have failed and have learned to live gracefully with their failure. Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

Your momma and daddy leave you at some point, and then you are on your own.

El vino es la cosa más civilizada del mundo.

É uma ilusão a sabedoria dos velhos. A sabedoria não cresce com a idade. O que cresce é o espírito de cautela. —Talvez a sabedoria seja isso.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.

You learn a thing or two as the years go by

Forse diventare adulto significa rendersi conto della propria solitudine

Men are often childish and vain, although they deny it. - Marianne Falk

I'm too old for talks. I gave that up when I turned sixty. I'd done enough talking in my life by then. Nowadays I neither speak nor listen to what anybody else has to say.