maturity

Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you..!!

Through solving problems we improve and develop ourselves, reach maturity and strengthen our will

The promise of a dreamer__ 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 only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; finally society's gates open to welcome him; he comes into contact with his fellows. For the first time he is scrutinized and the seeds of the vices and virtues of his maturity are thought to be observed forming in him. This is, if I am not mistaken, a singular error.Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first word which arouse with him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of the prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life.

Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Losing maturity in one__ fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that__ not always a bad thing.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.

We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.