I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn’t know how. If God was real, I figured He was powerful enough to know what I wanted without me actually...

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root...

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I’m in-charge.

A few people of integrity can go a long way.

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Sixty is heaven,” she [bohemian Aunt Norma] told Jeanie as they sat having tea. “The world is done with you, you become to all intents and purposes invisible, particularly if you are a woman. I...

The shorter the time until maturity, the less impact rising rates will have on bond prices.

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very...

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences...

I would prefer,” Pat said, his voice a little stiff, as if he expected resistance, “that I be the cosigner on the loan, if you go through with this. I know I’m not a famous...

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

That’s not fair!” Charlotte said.”I thought you were a grown lady — you know life is neither fair nor kind.

Fair and unfair are for children

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

Wart meets Merlin for the first time – only for Merlin, who lives backwards, it’s the last time. The old wizard weeps and the boy can’t understand why. It’s a powerful expression of the gulf...

Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

The only time “early bloomer” has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.

‎Reconciliation‬ is the most significant level of life’s maturity!

I can take care of myself, but I can’t take care of myself and a child. I’ve decided to give myself up for adoption.

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

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

I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.

The maturity of Desmond was the first thing I saw when he played this summer. Here is a quality athlete who made major strides as a basketball player.

Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing”, said the Butterfly.

The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being “born again” but little time on “growing up” again. There is a failing to encourage newborn believers out of the maternity ward...

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...