Quotes About Maturity

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

I used to do things like white-water rafting, trekking and horse-riding safaris. Recently, though, I had the humiliation of having to turn away from a helter skelter. It's a very strange thing when you hit a certain age.

It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many ways to read maturity, and I'm not fighting the instinct to simply enjoy that kind of nonsense. I love that someone would pay me to draw on somebody else's bottom.

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

As our children grow and mature in their relationship with Christ, things they need to adjust will happen far more easily when they are prompted by God's Spirit rather than coerced by their parents.

Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.

Perhaps with age came a more sedate appreciation of the passage of time.

Your son. From nought to five he is your master, from five to ten your servant, from ten to fifteen your secret counsellor, and after that, your friend - or your enemy.

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

Age is a scalpel, cutting out bits of what we are. Second after second. Day after day. Year after year

When you're with a girl, it's always best to act like you're an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.

An apple that hasn't experienced the hard times of cold is flat, tasteless, bland. But an apple that's hung in the hundred-degree temperatures of day and held through the thirty-five-degree nips of night is a fruit with experience. Cold helps to bring out the acid, which makes an apple tart. Color is painted by warmth.

Después pregúntate "¿Qué es lo que probablemente me diría a mí mismo si fuera una versión mayor de mí mismo?".

una versión mayor de mí mismo?".

often in people's 30s or 40s, a stage where you begin crafting your own language for what you do as an increasingly "strong poet"—you make your craft your own and view your life as more self-expression than simply playing out other people's roles for you.

Therefore, to be furious and enraged and bitter that people don't get all of who we are is a really a cruel piece of immaturity.

Losing faith in my bosses and elders made me independent and an adult.

Learn to confront the challenges of the real world, rather than resort to the protective womb of

Complaints about reality are immature.

Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength. Self-reliance is almost always a component of a bad relationship. While