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

I’m all groan up in America.

My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists...

When you overlook an insult, you keep your peace.Don’t give away your joy to troublemakers.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute...

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

I thought she was older than she was, and I thought she was younger than she was. She looked older, but she acted younger, so no matter what her age was, I was surprised by...

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.

Until you’re grown-up they send you to reform school. After you’re grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

I couldn’t shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away....

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

will show political maturity and become a global power, or it will end up a Christian club.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present,...

Yep, I was so mature, I decided I would just have to reward myself by doing the naked lambada with a Federal Agent.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.

Age doesn’t determine maturity. It’s the depth of life that does, not its duration.

She was kind of thin as a 3-year-old but maturity has been great for her. She’s so much stronger now and she’s getting better. The break we gave her after the Breeders’ Cup has helped...

I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years...

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by...

I am not half the man I use to think I was.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you’ve tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things...

It’s as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, “Here you are. Try not to lose it.” But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are...

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.

Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

Faith all grown up is trust.

A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship....

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

You look extremely young,” said Miss Nightingale….”Age isn’t really a matter of years, I find,” returned Phemie. “I know people twice my age who will never be as old as I am now.

the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs. That was all. But, nevertheless, it is any thing but agreeable to...

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and...

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one’s childhood when one has truly left it.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that’s what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men...

Anyone bearing witness to Logan will certainly attest to his competitive style, but take a closer look and what you’ll notice is a wrestler who has grown not only in confidence, but in maturity. Cohen...

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Grow up to maturity because the worldis waiting for you

But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that...

In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love (‘be encouraged’) but not the discipline of his love (‘and sin no more’). But with the whole scope of his...

I want to congratulate the Mexican nation for the democratic and political maturity it showed during the election.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

Het nietsontziende despotisme van de huidige maatschappij heeft volstrekt niets van doen met de zachtaardige gezagsuitoefenng van een vader, die meer gericht is op het voordeel van degeen die gehoorzaamt dan op het nut voor...