Maturity Quotes
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
"You are never too old to become younger!"
"I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity."
"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."
"I’m 33, and an 18-year-old girl called me old. I said, “You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair."
"I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us."
"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."
"I pet horses and ride cats, because I’m a cowman. I’m too mature to be a cowboy."
"That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old."
"A little part of me dies every time I try to commit suicide. If life is a buffet, I’m still in the mac and cheese phase. Maybe one day I’ll mature into more of a meatloaf kind of guy."
"I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went."
"Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all."
"For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future."
"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."
"When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree."
"Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom."
"When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables."
"...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]"
"Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
"You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark."
"As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?"
"The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity."
"In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us."
"There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort."
"Spiritual Maturity is not how much of the bible you think you know, or how well you can recite prayers, but rather, it is how you act as a person, and use your belief in a God to better your life and the lives of people around you."
"Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish."
"The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy."
"The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage."
"Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death."
"And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing."
"You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now."
"There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life."
"By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy."
"There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man."
"Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity."
"Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?"
"Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others..."
"In our process of spiritual maturity, our faith needs to attain bigger dimensions"
"Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man."
"Christian education begins where evangelism ends, helping believers grow in their faith."
Perry G. Downs, Teaching for Spiritual Growth: An Introduction to Christian Education
"The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with."
"Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!"
"Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell. This isn't failure, but it's a sign of maturity and learning on your part. All you need to do is rethink what you wanted to do, in the first place,and see what you can change.Then that is called determination and that, will lead to you having success."
"What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that."
"Life can be full of despair without intimacy from a youth's family members and they need to understand that values of caring can help an individual to overcome his or her struggle as he or she develops to become an adult."
"A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently."
"To the immature, other people are not real."
"The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity."
"Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders."
"With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight."
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