Maturation Quotes

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.

To present is to take a stand and being responsible.

I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. – Maya

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

Character is the main object of education.

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

I was young enough to be an optimist.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now.

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked.

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.