Quotes About Maturity

Things good and bad will happen to us, of course. But what our life amounts to, at least for those who reach full age, is largely, if not entirely, a matter of what we become within.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

So my fifth point is this: spiritual formation is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual takes on the quality or character of Jesus himself.

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.

God both develops and, for our good, tests our character by leaving us to decide. He calls us to responsible citizenship in his kingdom by saying—in effect or in reality—as often as possible, "My will for you in this case is that you to decide on your own.

And if you have any doubts, Peter added, Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn

Pain is part of growing up.It's how we learn.

lifers" who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective

And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinthians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men'—where the milk is a watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.

And if you have any doubta, Peter added, Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.

Her eyes, though a gentle brown, seemed unusually penetrating, as if they had witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age.

the human race would not be responsible enough to wield the intoxicating tools it was now inventing.

footnote: With all due respect is grown-up talk for I think you're stupid.

Coke had a theory to explain grown-ups, as he did for most things in life. In his view, babies are born with a specific number of brain cells, which waste away and die off as people get older. So by the time they reach thirty—and certainly by the time they reach forty—most of their brain cells are gone. This explains why grown-ups do and say the things they do.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.

But as we mature and begin to grasp that we are often the cause of our own difficulties, we begin a process of compassionate self-observation leading to deeper self-knowledge — denial gives way to authenticity as the light of awareness penetrates our shadow. We come to accept ourselves (and others) as we are rather than as we might want ourselves (or them) to be. And as we embrace the full scope of our humanity, we open the way to genuine growth and transformation.

I wasn't weak or oversensitive; I was precocious. I didn't have a deficit of strength; I had a deficit of years.

as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time....

estas cosas suelen pasarles a los jóvenes y la reflexión sobre ellas, es, normalmente, ejercicio de la edad avanzada o de una experiencia que se paga demasiado cara.

yet there would always be some difference seen between five-and-twenty and two-and-forty.

Thus while we cannot decide when we have our emotional outbursts, we have more control over how long they last. A quicker recovery time from such outbursts may well be one mark of emotional maturity.

After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing.