maturity

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?

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.

LINK OUT OF SYNCWhen the mind fails to keep pace with the body's maturityKamil Ali

I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I've noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when those seeds have died, that they can be planted and grow. And, I can relate this same process to the human body. In order to grow and thrive in the spirit, you must die to the flesh. Meaning, You have to rid your mind and body of toxic negative worldly things in order to grow and develop more spiritually.

Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can__ be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

At what point in your life do you say I have had enough... money, food, clothes, these possessions that we keep killing one another for even power and dominance? One advice, look at your age and declare that my age dictates I start doing this thing, I should stop doing this and that, I should say this and not that... in essence grow your brain to reason. Just like that.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

In our formative years, every person begins creating a self that can keep him or her company through later stages in life. It requires concentrated effort to create self-hood. The task of creating a fully developed human being is an ongoing process, an open-ended assignment. The goal of self-hood is to evade slipping into a state of thoughtlessness, where we fail to take ownership of our thoughts, deeds, and lifestyle.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Grow up, Bailey.""That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

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

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