Quotes About Maturity

The conclusion that the myth-makers thought in much the same way as we still think in dreams is almost self-evident. The first attempts at myth-making can, of course, be observed in children, whose games of make-believe often contain historical echoes. But one must certainly put a large question-mark after the assertion that myths spring from the "infantile" psychic life of the race. They are on the contrary the most mature product of that young humanity.

Only the man who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past, and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed for him by his world, can achieve full consciousness of the present. To do this he must be sound and proficient in the best sense--a man who as achieved as much as other people, and even a little more. It is these qualities which enable him to gain the next highest level of consciousness.

He considered personality to be an achievement, not something given. Moreover, it was essentially an achievement of the second half of life. In the first half of life, a person is, and should be, concerned with emancipating himself from parents and with establishing himself in the world as spouse, parent and effective contributor.

It is perhaps a humiliating sign of spiritual immaturity that [modern] man needs, and wants, a large measure of authority.

The Lingam is certainly not an obscene allusion; nor is the cross merely a sign of death. Much depends upon the maturity of the dreamer who produces such an image.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.î

Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.

Tudo volta. E voltam mais bonitas, mais maduras, voltam quando tem de voltar, voltam quando é pra ser.

All you could hope for with your second half century: that things wouldn't piss you off. You rarely got that.

On reflection, this makes sense. If you have many years' experience, then you've had time to get better at what you do and develop a feeling of efficacy. It also gives you time to develop strong relationships with your coworkers and to see many examples of your work benefiting others.

Quienes quieran ser jóvenes cuando sean viejos, deberán ser viejos cuando sean jóvenes. JOHN RAY, 1670

Excessive knowledge is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose tongue is indeed a child with a knife.

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Still, most people need more information on how to become conformed to the image of Christ than they do on how to be converted.

In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.

Bueno, ya sabes, cuando el diablo se hace viejo, se vuelve religioso.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

es cómodo ser derrotado a los veinticinco años aún sin una sola cana en la cabeza sin una sola caries en la dentadura sin una sola nube en la conciencia con sólo dos o tres lagunas en la memoria y mirar el mundo desde el cielo desde el purgatorio desde el infierno desde más acá de los montes pirineos y la cordillera de los andes con frialdad con indiferencia con estupor

Old enough to know better, but too young to care.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

Tener secretos. Otra forma de crecer.

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin—and certainly a danger—to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

We cannot live in the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning- for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.