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.

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his...

Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When you’re young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

I pet horses and ride cats, because I’m a cowman. I’m too mature to be a cowboy.

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.

It’s still the best way to know the maturity of peanuts.

The maturity, not only physical, but mental and emotional, he gained over the last six or eight months has been awesome.

Minimise your time with those who make noises instead of speaking what is good for your ears, else, they’ll attune you with balderbash. Maximise your time with those who will inject into your ears a...

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: ‘This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death...

Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is...

There’s a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there’s a certain maturity in admitting that you’re not ready.

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have...

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

I’m older today than yesterday, and therefore I must be more mature.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to...

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It’s small mining– small mining. You’re too young a...

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn’t hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of...

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains’ apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around their order’s star and gemAnd growing ever darker, stony-faced,And these, their ladies, fragile, wan, but proppedHigh by their bodice, one hand...

He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching...

some students look at the problems that they’re facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just a professor giving me a bad grade or someone not sitting next to...

She had not been conferred with a practical sense of how one went about this strange and all inverted business of being a girl, where seemingly natural stuff like going on about all the great...

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn’t real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

maturity,” then every single woman I’ve dated has been at least twice my yage.

To the immature, other people are not real.

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.

Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose to do is going to contribute to one persona or another. People will...

We showed a lot a poise and maturity in the situation.

Her maturity level has gotten a lot better. She is becoming easier to coach, as well.

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

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to...

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

The job wouldn’t be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do...

We’ve recruited a very professional team and it’s simply a sign of maturity of our organization that we want the professionals whose careers are at stake in making this thing work properly,

With eight returning starters on both sides, we have a little more experience to take in a setting like that. Probably very few people realized Utah was a BCS-caliber team at that time, and that...

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

It doesn’t take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.