Quotes About Maturity

The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.

she had that kind of matronly plumpness that comes with age, pasta, and a comfortable life.

Only the young think being called old is an insult

Some free advice for you: Never fight an old man. They've been there, done that, written the book, made and starred in the movie, designed the T-shirt, and they've got no ego at all about how the fight gets won. And never fight family. They know you too well.

It should satisfy your concerns as to his judgement- to make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is. Agreed?

But hardly old. Went silver early, I'd say. That's always attractive in a man. It means he has both power enough to have responsibilities and conscience enough to worry over them.

We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

you have to smile at idiots and children.

age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.

No matter how old you are or how long--or short!--you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!

Spiritual maturity keeps you from being easily swayed in your beliefs

Grownups are always more fascinated by what you might become than what you are.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

As our mountain friend says, 'It takes about forty-five or fifty years before we realize that we can go to bed at about ten o'clock and not miss anything much.

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.

Don't throw tantrums; that's unprofessional.

Was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was.

the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the golden rhythm was broken, and I am not that young any more.

Obviously, I had talked too much, recounted too long a list. By that gauge, the years since puberty were peaks and valleys and stretches of incoherent landscape.