I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up – late.

Since eternity, mankind has denied what was to be deeply understood and transformed, all the emotions that were primal in one’s progress in higher consciousness, was subjugated, condemned so deeply that we are still struck...

I’m all groan up in America.

My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I’ll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least...

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people’s perception of you rather than people’s perception of you.

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn’t have when you’re actually living it. It’s as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though...

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head.” (Bhutta)

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to...

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sleep.

There comes a time in your life where youhave to live without the wo/man of yourdreams and have to live with the one in your reality.That is called maturity

What I’ve found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you’re blue in the face–they’re never going to get it and they’re never going to change. But every once...

MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired;Then I shall start to feel the backward pullTake over, sickening and masterful — Some say, desired.And this...

Hey, can I come in?

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...

Maturity is when we differentiate between our wants and needs and treatment them as such.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.

One of those guys will step up and do a nice job in there. But the maturity and being in a game situation definitely goes to Eric.

Maturity doesn’t advance linearly, like you steadily and readily becoming more profound in your thinking. No, it staggers and stumbles like a drunk.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our souls. How many human beings go through the world frozen with rage against...

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was...

The youngsters have responded brilliantly to the pressure situations and shown maturity beyond their years keeping their spirits high throughout.

bored buddha.” In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.

Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away...

Knowing your responsibilities doesn’t make you mature but acting up on it does.

Always think twice before responding in anger. Words and written communication cannot be taken back. Chances are you’ll feel differently tomorrow.

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the...

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.

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn’t have to be like them.

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as...

He’s maturing and getting better every week. We have a lot of young players on this team. I couldn’t be more pleased with how they have progressed.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, “had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to...

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that...

The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you...

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a...

That’s a reflection of the maturity of the medium. It’s harder to grow at the same rate or higher.

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves;...

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn’t our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we’re vessels, and we...

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

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey...