Quotes About Maturity

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

She was glad to see that he was finally growing some hairs on his chin: soon he would have a proper mane that went all the way round his face. The she-lion decided that from now on, she must give him plenty of licking and muzzle-rubs, to help it grow

He's too old to be going to visit a cousin.

You can't make no full-grown man do nothin', even if what you tellin' him is right.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

For all of [Fanny] Ardant's ability to depict a range of emotion, I most associate her with joy. Not necessarily the depiction of joy, but rather a joy of acting, a joy of being, a joie de vivre . Ardant, in her mature performances, conveys the sense of someone bringing to scenes her full being, her whole self and experience. There is an understanding of the value of life in such moments, in the value of the moments themselves.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

The mother would be overly possessive of her son and would castrate him mentally. She would treat him like a boy although he was already an adult male.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

One does not get to be a man by getting married, by having sex: to be a man means to be responsible, to know when it is time to speak, to know what has to be said, to know when one must stay silent.

Learning to use time alone, instead of escaping from it, is especially important in our early years. Teenagers who can't bear solitude disqualify themselves from later carrying out adult tasks that require serious mental preparation.

la soledad es el patrimonio de la edad adulta.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —OSCAR WILDE

Others admit that God may enjoy them on earth, but only if they are as spiritually mature as the apostle Paul. But the truth is that God will enjoy us while we mature. The knowledge of this is a vital key to turning sincere desire into spiritual maturity.

Our spiritual health and maturity depend upon knowing that God enjoys us, for it addresses the fear of rejection within our hearts. The fear of rejection and the trauma of shame are the most powerful emotions in the human spirit.

If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.