Quotes About Maturity

all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.

Why, to be sure, something sad seems to happen to your great men and your admirals, with age, pretty often: even to your post-captains. A kind of atrophy, a withering-away of the head and the heart. I conceive it may arise from Ã¢â'¬Â¦

you cannot expect old heads on young shoulders;

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

And we finally come to a more mature place in our faith and realize what Bonhoeffer knew: "Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will." We

Immature people will not receive loving truth, no matter how gently you offer it. You can agonize over what to say, endlessly rehearse your future conversation, and then deliver your pearls of wisdom in a tone more tender than Florence Nightingale—and in the end, it won't help. The immature want what they want, when they want it, and how they want it, even if having what they want damages you.

If you will consistently speak the truth in love and display gracious firmness, you will grow in maturity and find that you are attracting a healthy crop of spiritually mature friends.*

He was twenty-five but had that elongated bony English look of not yet having completed the process of growing-up and filling out which meant in a few years he would suddenly appear middle-aged as well as beefy because to men like this everything seemed to happen at once round about the age of thirty; everything except white hair which was reserved for retirement and was equally sudden and the only sign that old age had arrived.

At a certain age you stop being a child and start raising your parents ...

And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.

But now Nature starts doing things. The hormones start rolling and those old testicles start producing and all the rest of it--like breathing. You don't go around asking for it. It happens. It happened to me when I was twelve. (Sean)

Él era demasiado joven para saber el impudor que hay en la inmovilidad y el silencio.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe.

After a certain age, we put on a mask of confidence and certainty. In time, that mask gets stuck to our face and we can't remove it. As children, we learn that if we cry we'll receive affection, that

so you , too , must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person

And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.

She had never allowed herself to be provoked; she had learned early that whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.

When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

Grown people never ask you what they should do until they've already decided for themselves.

I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.