Quotes About Maturity

There was a general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one's development as a human being.

Taking responsibility for your life means owning your failures and faults as well as your successes and strengths.

The child is father of the man

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

You've got to grow up sometime.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Today the formation of God's people into an army is a matter of coordination, which is based on three matters: life, maturity, and confirmation. These three matters must be fulfilled in order for God's people to be properly formed, which is to be properly coordinated. (CWWL, 1960, vol. 1, "Synopsis of Numbers," p. 71)

built up in Him...

As we grow in Christ, we are being built up in Him.

Along with the friction, there must also be growth. This growth will nullify the effect of the friction.

The process of sanctification includes saturation, transformation, growth, and building up.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

Each child is an evil. Each adult is an self-control or be controlled evil.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn't have the good of our community at heart.

Y en el juego angustioso de un espejo frente a otro cae mi voz y mi voz que madura y mi voz quemadura y mi bosque madura y mi voz quema dura

As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.