Quotes About Maturity

Thirty. "Something of the maiden's fragrance lingers with a woman until she is twenty-nine, but nothing is left about the body of the woman of thirty years.

Even if someone says nasty things about me, I don't recognize their ill will toward me. I feel thankful that they are forcing themselves to say such difficult things for my sake.

Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.

Greater freedom frequently comes with greater responsibility.

Just because you're changing doesn't mean you're not in control of the person you become.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.

If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself—begin to have spiritual discernment.

God's grace produces men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not pampered, spoiled weaklings. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the worthy and excellent life of a disciple of Jesus in the realities of life. And it is always necessary for us to make an effort to live a life of worth and excellence.

When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed.

Your growth in grace is not measured by the fact that you haven't turned back, but that you have an insight and understanding into where you are spiritually. Have you heard God say, "Come up higher," not audibly on the outer level, but to the innermost part of your character?

many of us prefer to stay at the entrance to the Christian life, instead of going on to create and build our soul in accordance with the new life God has placed within us.

degree of maturity in the level of personal identification with social, political, or religious ideologies; second, an ability to resist regression when subject to group processes; and third, an ability to adhere to a value system of one's own choosing as opposed to submitting to conventionality.

Every child has to raise itself.

Es posible que nos separemos dentro de poco, que no volvamos a vernos en mucho tiempo. Pero si un día volvemos a reunimos, y recordamos esta noche y las horas que hemos pasado juntos, no habremos perdido "aquello" que nos ha unido. Estaremos más maduros frente a la vida, y podremos volver a unir los hilos que se han roto.

You are young enough! — and yet, I don't know; it is a popular fallacy that time counts by years. One is old according to the style of one's life, not the length of it.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.