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...

You are never too old to become younger!

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

Zeb was kindergarten teacher–a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one’s character through reasoning in a circumstance.

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.

People say you’re born innocent, but it’s not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can’t wash off....

Right now is the youngest I’ll ever be, so I suppose I’d better act immature while I still can.

(Bonhoeffer’s) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone...

Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.

Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.

The same teen who can’t legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]…in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring...

it’s my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can’t be passive about that.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

Not to grow up properly is to retain our ‘caterpillar’ quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it becomes a vice). In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us...

Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

We like to say 13, generally. It all depends on the maturity of the child.

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

When I Was One-And-TwentyWhen I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,`Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away;Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.’But I was one-and-twenty...

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn’t want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you’d be married and...

There’s enough maturity in the offerings from Salesforce.com now that it will open up a market opportunity beyond the early adopters.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men...

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

The higher the testosterone, the lower the maturity level.

The truth is women need men, we are neither superior nor inferior to men. We are better at some things and worse at other things. Mature people take the hard road and choose to delay...

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

What we want to do in this moment is rarely what’s best for us. We need to take a longer view of life and to realize that to become someone worth becoming, I probably need...

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the...

The older I get, the more I realize that I am not just the student, but I am my own teacher as well.

At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about ‘petty personal problems’ was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one’s...

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the...

I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity.

I’m not the same person I was when I wasn’t. I’m different now, in that now I’m drinking coffee.

Maturity dare to be the first to shine as a light in the dark.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You’re a grown-up, it’s no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation...

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the...

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

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be...

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as...

You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair.