Maturity Quotes
I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.
So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.
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.
In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.
To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.
Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.
Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.
The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.
Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.
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.
The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.
At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.
At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.
People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".
It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.
It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.
Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.
When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.
Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.
...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.
Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.
If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.
I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.
An old person knows what it’s like to be young, but a young person doesn’t know what it’s like to be old. There’s no substitute for life experience.
Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.
One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.
The period of time between eligibility to vote and the start of adulthood is a window of opportunity that the liberals are willing to exploit to their advantage.
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.
A team goes through stages of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maturity, and aging in its development.
You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….
She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.