Quotes About Maturity

Children still, on the verge of not being children any more.

God is not bound by time, nor is our story. We desperately want our situation to be solved. We want resolution. But, God unfolds the plot in His own time. It is in our months or years of waiting that our story comes to maturity. It is over a lifetime of stories that he turns our desire toward Him.

There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

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

Because some people never grow up, or not in a way that allows them to develop the courage of their convictions.

immature, Arlo!" said Andrea. "I bet their daughter's

How is it that adulthood becomes like walking into a new school and never wanting to meet a soul, and somehow knowing that this time the feeling wouldn't wear off after the first or second week of classes?

Because if there's one thing we've learned, it's that, unless we give him a viable alternative, today's angry young man is destined to become tomorrow's lonely and embittered middle-aged man.

After months of incubation in their thousand petri dishes, the songs that would comprise Paul's Boutique reached maturity in surprisingly short order.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

He kissed her dizzy, then lifted her. She wrapped her legs around his waist as he kissed his way down her neck. "Make love to me," she whispered. "Like I'm a full-grown woman." He pulled back to look at her. "As opposed to...?

Where did you grow up?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?

Enlightenment (or not) is an evolutionary process

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

He imagined her impressed by his maturity, by his willingness to share her with another man. But this formulation was partial. It did not take into account the fact that she'd loved him, or that he'd broken her heart. It did not consider that her heart might be broken still, or that every time they slept together, it broke a little more.

Sometimes to be the bigger person, you gotta be the little guy.

My favourite bit of advice comes from Dr. Daniel Amen's 18, 40, 60 Rule: "At 18 you worry about what everyone thinks of you. At 40 you don't care. At 60 you realise no one was thinking about you anyway!

When I was, like thirteen I thought it would be really cool to be a prostitute... I Thought It was like handsome guys would take you out on these romantic dates and you´d fuck them and then they´d pay you...

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.

It is never too late to be wise.