Maturation Quotes
Maturation Quote of the day
Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.
They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.
The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.
Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.
We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.
No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.
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.
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.
A person who could withstand such dreadful insults from his or her enemies can have the ability to reach his or her potentials by becoming socially, educationally and economically successful.
Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.
The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.
I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.
The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.
The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
I had intended to visit the haunting ground of my school days. Subconsciously I wanted to be in a place where anxiety, responsibility and financial burden had yet to surface.
As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.
My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams
He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.