Quotes About Maturity

Because Jonah's real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of eternity. He was granted an experience that women dream of: he lived when he was mature in the adored whale's belly. In real paradise. How does one get there? By disobedience. By passion. Running away.)

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

Ideea creÈ™terii a ajuns azi un cliÈ™eu biografic. A fi adult înseamn? a fi un omn care a crescut. Dar este numai o modalitate de a privi maturizarea, fie ea È™i eroic?. Orice copac È™i orice legum? care cresc îÈ™i trimit din ce în ce mai jos r?d?cinile. Ne înc?p??ân?m s? vedem doar partea de sus a creÈ™terii noastre organice.

Smart bombs do not compensate for dumb kids.

He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.

that he was both more and less experienced than the youngest new boy at the School might well be; and that, that paradox of age and youth, was what the world called progress.

Perhaps the exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom, if you care to alter the proverb.

Just because I don't fight back, doesn't mean I'm weak. It means I'm mature enough to know that anger won't solve anything

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…" "When you stop growing you start dying.

There comes a time in your life, when you need to walk away from all the drama and the people who create it.

Weirdness. "I would guess is the time that is given to us, to grow up and become who you really are.

Maturity is realizing that sometimes it's not always others causing the problem but sometimes it is us, and we need to be accountable for our mistakes.

You become more mature, when you take charge of your own life.

I'm sorry that what I write or post OFFENDS you. It's sad that Our God Given rights are being taken away by someone who might get Butt Hurt because they don't like what they see or read. Now a day's you got to walk on egg shells so you don't OFFEND someone. So if this Offends YOU then So be it. Grow up and Move on.

As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

How scary it might prove to conclude that I am essentially alone in this summons to personal consciousness, that I cannot continue to blame others for what has happened to me, that I am really out there on that tightrope over the abyss, making choices every day, and that I am truly, irrevocably responsible for my life. That I would have to grow up, stand naked before this immense brutal universe, and step in to the largeness of this journey, my journey.

Growing up spiritually means that we are asked to sort through the possibilities for ourselves, find what resonates for us, what is confirmed by our experience not the consensus of others, and be willing to stand for what has proved true for us. For this reason, the twin tasks of finding personal authority and finding a mature spirituality are inextricably linked.

Where do you refuse to grow up, wait for certainty of wisdom before choosing, hope for solutions to emerge fully formed, expect rescue, or wait for a guru to make sense of it all for you?

It is of paramount importance that our spirituality be validated or confirmed by fidelity to our personal experience. A spiritual tradition that is only received from history or from family makes no real difference in a person's life, for he or she is living by conditioned reflexive response. Only what is experientially true is worthy of a mature spirituality.

And thus fourthly, it only stands to reason, that the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the other is to assume more of the developmental agenda for ourselves.

Solitude can be defined as learning that we are not alone when we are alone. When we have achieved the stature of solitude, namely achieving a conscious relationship with ourselves, then we are freer to share ourselves with others, freer to receive their gifts in return and not be infantilized by the mutual archaic agenda of childhood, the agenda that covertly uses the other to provide for us.

Beware of what you wish for in youth because you will get it in middle life.

O, not in the least tragic. I shall become gradually better, they tell me, as I grow older. As I did not die then they tell me I shall probably live.