Quotes About Maturity

Imagination opens things up so that we can grow into maturity—worship and adore, exclaim and honor, follow and trust. Explanation restricts and defines and holds down; imagination expands and lets loose. Explanation keeps our feet on the ground; imagination lifts our heads into the clouds. Explanation puts us in harness; imagination catapults us into mystery. Explanation reduces life to what can be used; imagination enlarges life into what can be adored.

Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.

Knowledge of doctrine is not the same as Christian maturity and victory over sin.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

When we choose to practice true forgiveness, the relationship is not just brought back to where it was before the offense; it actually moves further down the road to maturity.

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.

people feel they can be revealing around me, that they can unbutton their lips and let slip intimate facts ad trust that I have the maturity to keep my mouth shut.

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Not by age but by character is wisdom acquired.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Vuoi diventare adulta? E' la cosa più infantile che abbia mai sentito.

Meghan has outgrown you, just as she outgrew me.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

The common route to this knowledge is life experience

When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I'll see the odd grey hair - but this is life.

I feel offended when people bring up my four marriages. I was 19 when I first got married and I thought it would be for ever. But each of my marriages has added to my life and helped form me as a human being.

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.