Quotes About Maturity

You only grow when you are alone.

J'avais vingt ans. Je ne laisserai personne dire que c'est le plus bel âge de la vie.

I'm not willing to let any thing or any person put my physical sobriety at risk; why should I put less value on my emotional sobriety? Besides, I like the feeling I have when I conduct myself in an emotionally mature, independent manner.

you have chosen the person most able to help you grow in emotional maturity.

the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.2

for the next major development in A.A.—the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.2

They displayed more emotional independence, more emotional sobriety, more maturity. I, on the other hand, allowed a person whose actions I didn't like to control my emotional sobriety.

I turned thirty, and suddenly I was at that point in your life where you want to eat Fruity Pebbles, but you're concerned about the fiber content.

Sandy was ready for a bit of excitement in her life too. She was tired of being treated like she was so immature, like she didn't know anything about boys or sex or anything. While it was true that she didn't have any experience, she was more than ready to learn. She was ready to say goodbye to Sandra Dee. At least, she thought she was.

No one under the age of eighteen needs a cell phone unless they're a surgeon, a drug dealer, or a prostitute.

Don't come crying to me, Stanley. Fight your own battles." Fight my own battles? I'm five!

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into various trials, knowing that the trying of your faith produces patience. And let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and whole, lacking nothing. Jas 1:2–4

But if it is life alone that dies, love is born, which is the innermost part of the spirit. It is the most mature and most precious fruit of the life that sacrifices itself. Love breaks out of the prison of individualism and nationalist stupidity. Love goes to another person, even one with a different language or of a different race, and returns from him richer.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

A maturidade bíblica nunca é apenas a respeito do que você sabe; é sempre sobre como a graça tem empregado o que você veio a saber para transformar a maneira como você vive.

Coisas ruins acontecem quando a maturidade é definida mais por conhecer do que por ser. O perigo está à solta quando você começa a amar mais as ideias do que ao Deus que elas representam e às pessoas que elas desejam libertar.

O cristianismo academicizado, que não está constantemente conectado ao coração e coloca sua esperança no conhecimento e na habilidade, pode, na verdade, fazer estudantes perigosos. Ele os mune de conhecimento e habilidades poderosos, que podem fazê-los pensar que são mais maduros e piedosos do que na verdade são. Ele mune os alunos de armas de guerra espiritual que, se não usadas com humildade e graça, prejudicarão as pessoas que eles deveriam ajudar.

O conhecimento bíblico não deve ser confundido com a maturidade cristã. A exatidão homilética não é o mesmo que piedade. Destreza teológica é muito diferente de santidade prática. Liderança bem sucedida não é o mesmo que um coração para Cristo. Crescimento em influência não deve ser confundido com crescimento em graça.

Patience, patience. Patience dans l'azur chaque atome de silence est la chance d'un fruit mûr !

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown