Quotes About Maturity

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism,

Izzy had the heart of a radical, but she had the experience of a fourteen-year-old living in the suburban Midwest. Which is to say: she cast about for ideas for exacting revenge -- egged windows, flaming bags of dog shit -- and chose the best thing in her limited repertoire.

Each year they learn the same thing, just in bigger words.

She's twenty-three, he thinks; she knows nothing about life, wasted or otherwise.

We are, like our beloved garden greens, sturdy, strong, and best when tested by the elements and fully seasoned.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Sevgilim, çocuklara ÅŸaka yap?lmaz. Ben de bir çocuktum.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

She had wanted to behave like a fully grown woman and it had not come off.

Vecchi si nasce, – dissi, – non si diventa mica.

Chad Davidson

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I would take a free and hopeful breath. It was settled. Fear would no longer be the weakness that undid me. I was seventeen and unsophisticated, and thought I could dig about in my soul for the mettle I needed, and that it would be enough.

The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

A Christian of longer standing may not be spiritual, not because he has had insufficient time but because during the years of his Christian life he has not allowed the Holy Spirit to control him.

That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.