Maturity Quotes

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

Hi, ’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.

Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers!

Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them.

People think I am younger then I really am, because I act so immature.

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

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.

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.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.

Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.

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.

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?

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.

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

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.

Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.

Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.

The seeds we sow today will grow to serve as shades for weary travellers tomorrow

Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things ....... @R$H

Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother.

Maturity is when you can understand someone's silences and the pauses between those silences...

Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.

Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.

How do we perceive what’s important in life, from what we once thought to what we think now, how does it change?

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.