Maturation Quotes

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.

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.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

Better to wait actively than passively.

We become what we behold.

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.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

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.

Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.

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.

Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

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.

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel

The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

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

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

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.

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

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.

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

Tobin Hart calls play “the holy work of children” that helps them “find and define themselves.”[2]

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

There was so much – so many tests and tasks, so many tiny referenda.

A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.