Quotes About Maturity

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

A mark of a competent adult is their ability to accept feedback. The mark of a child is their expectation of praise without merit.

When you are born, you wake slowly to everything. Your brain doesn't stop growing until you turn twenty-six, so from birth to twenty-six, God is slowly turning the lights on, and you're groggy and pointing at things saying circle and blue and car and then sex and job and health care.

I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention.

She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up, as what "growing up" entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.

Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more.

aware that Allison's eyes were on him, stepped backwards and began instead to swivel his lower body in an oddly lascivious and adult-looking little dance.

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

The mature nation, like the mature man, is one which has made a workable accommodation between its aspirations and its limitations.

I'm a grown woman, and I can fend for myself. Now help me put on my pants.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

You don't know how many years it took to tone it down to that.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

The riper he is for glory, the more, like the ripe corn, he hangs down his head. The brighter and clearer is his light, the more he sees of the shortcomings and infirmities of his own heart. When first converted, he would tell you he saw but little of them compared to what he sees now. Would

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

The spiritually mature person is a wise person. And a wise person has the savvy and skill necessary to lead an exemplary life and to address the issues of the day in a responsible, attractive way that brings honor to God.

Jason spoke in a rough voice. "Hating you, hating anybody else, wouldn't make my life any better. My parents think tearing other people down, tearing me down, makes them bigger. But I know it doesn't. It makes them smaller. And I am not going to be like them.

I like Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rule: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. -Credited to Ms. Rose Written by Dan Clark

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.

3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must I spend my days among them?' But have I ever said such things aloud? No. I have been nothing but generous to them, and kept these thoughts to myself. And how have they repaid me? Have they been grateful or kind? Ho NO!

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.