Quotes About Maturity

Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.

I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Climbing may be hard, but it's easier than growing up. (Thanks Ed Sklar!)

Men go crazy in congregations They only get better one by one

Dressed as man, and with all the poise of someone at least six years older, he had learned quickly from his Magravandian classmates.

Let her be. We must wait for the time when she's mature enough to take on the role we have created for her. If we intervene before that time, we could ruin everything.

It seemed inconceivable she would be strong enough to mature, in this world of so many perils.

Daniel's silence had been eloquent on the other end of the line. Shem was reminded that his vizier was five years older now; a boy no longer and perhaps not quite so malleable as in the past.

I am Shemyaza's vizier, his adviser. The age of this body has little to do with the maturity of my soul, or the fact that once I lived in Grigori flesh.

Today, I would step off the narrow, twisty path of childhood, with all its secret haunts, and put one foot on the wide road of womanhood.

One thing Shan was wise enough to be aware of was that he had limited experience, simply because he was young.

All seeds require a protracted growth period.

My, aren't we bold with well-aged whiskey?

Indeed, anxiety or angst, as term-coiner Søren Kierkegaard first meant it, is the feeling that matures us, after we take "leaps of faith" into life, into

Emotional dependency is not immature or pathological; it is our greatest strength.

There's no getting around the fact that Robinson met these challenging days with maturity and courage,' she would write in 1956. 'It takes guts to keep your mouth shut and walk away. It is against every normal reaction of human behavior. But Robinson did it.

Sod the Office for bloody Statistics and sod the Guardian. It's indulgent Guardian-reading parents like us who've mollycoddled our kids since they were born who are responsible for all this. We've infantilized them, turned them into these delicate flowers who are too scared to go out into the world and get their hands dirty. Ben needs to find a job. Any job. That's all there is to it.

If I had to write a formula for trust, it would be: Trust = Wisdom + Experience (demonstrated responsibility over a period of time).

each child will be used by him to grow us up into the men and women he longs for us to become.

It was part of the excruciating in-betweenness of no longer being children, yet lacking those powers enjoyed by adults.

She had expected this because they were adults. Yet she'd gone off with them because they didn't behave like adults, so that she couldn't understand, now, whether they'd deserted her or whether she'd been stupid to expect otherwise.

Cock and hands are precocious enough. They belong to a fortunate, confident man, and have traveled in time for unguessable reasons to append themselves to a teenager. Unlike them his mouth is not a foreign power; it's her own missing part.

I just soak things up and learn as time goes on.