Quotes About Maturity

I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he was thirty-five…but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child's life, no matter how much you want to.

Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side.

Todo el mundo piensa que se cometen errores cuando se es joven—le dijo la jueza a Lacy—. Pero no creo que cometamos menos cuando somos adultos.

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

Madeline decides Jonathan is an immature, selfish asshole and that she is never talking to him again.

Maybe, he thinks, as he's riding on through the snow, maybe this is why she's leaving. Maybe she fell in love with me when we were kids. And now: and now: and now: we're not kids anymore.

That's sort of growing up, I guess. Forgetting the things you used to love.

I am old now, or oldening ...

We do not grow up; all we do is grow dull.

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquillity, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

I cut him off at once, with that particular form of corrosive savagery that grown sons reserve for their bumbling fathers.

his father was still living, and the living require more thought.

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.

But Jesus said, "Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn't for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked—or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you're capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it." (Matthew 19:11-12 The Message, emphasis added)

In other words, a believer who chooses to delight in the Word of God in the midst of adversity will avoid being offended. That person will be like a tree whose roots search deep to where the Spirit provides strength and nourishment. He will draw from the well of God deep within his spirit. This will mature him to the point where adversity will now be the catalyst for fruit. Hallelujah!

We have much to say…since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. …But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:11–12, 14) It's

There's nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.

no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn.

before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.

De qualquer jeito, eu tinha completado treze anos e achava que já era tempo de seguir meu próprio tempo. (Nove)

That's good to hear. There's nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.

You know, some day, when you're all older,' he said, looking around the room, 'you're going to have troubles of your own and you'll have friends who are going through tough times. Maybe it'll even be one of your own children. And when that happens, you'll look back at the way you're all behaving now and wonder whether you might not have been able to show a little more kindness.

The most dominant need that any child has is to gradually move from the complete environmental support of infancy and childhood to the self-support of maturity.