Quotes About Maturity

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Life calls, not for perfection, but for completeness.

Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved. They must be outgrown.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them.

When you become an adult and get to pick your pleasures, they should be worth picking.

Around the age that most children attended kindergarten and are entrusted with blunt-tipped scissors, River had the massive responsibility of supporting his family.

Men are such boys.

This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

You know," Cole said. "My mom once told me a boy would know he'd become a man when he stopped putting himself first. She said a girl would come along and I wouldn't be able to get her out of my mind. She said this girl would frustrate me, confuse me, and challenge me, but she would also make me do whatever was necessary to be a better man–the man she needed. With you, I want to be better. I want to be what you need. Tell me what you need.

The definition of marriage? When a woman adopts an overgrown man-child who cannot be handled by his parents any longer.

What are you, a child? Your cock is not a toy, so stop playing with it for one damn night.

I wasn't an ever-knowing adult; I was just expected to act like one. And, yeah. a real nice family tree I had. Murder and mayhem on every gnarled branch. Hardly seemed fair.

You yourself must endure the painful process of change. There is much more at work here than your instant maturity. God wants to build a relationship with you that is based on faith and trust and not on glamorous miracles.

No young believer should ever rise quickly in the ministry.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

In order for a field or discipline to progress and mature, it needs to reach a point where it can thoughtfully reflect on its origins, seek out a diverse set of perspectives on those reflections, and place that synthesis into a context that is useful for how the community pictures the future.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age — once you learn to keep a cork in it.

I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.

Life was much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying,' Irene muttered. 'It's called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.

Life was so much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying', Irene muttered. 'It's called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.