In one opinion, the house in which you stay, the church you attend and the town in which you reside may not determine the size of your dreams, but they can influence the rate of...

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize...

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for...

Life is all about practicing for heaven.” p 101.

Milk for infant as liquor for adult.

There are no shortcuts to maturity in discipleship; it was, is, and always will be learned over time and under pressure walking in union with Christ.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it...

Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that...

Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be revealed only to a particular man, and, then, only at his insistence. But...

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

In order to identify when we are receiving this energy from a particular—limited—individual, or when it is coming from Source, the Love that flows from Source is unlimited and increases constantly, whilst the other one...

Jess is an exciting young shooter who shows great maturity in her game.

A woman, who considers herself to be mature, has every right to insist certain respectful expectations be met by a man, but not if her behavior is consistently childish, selfish, foolish or disrespectful. Man and...

The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, ‘Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

Family isn’t always about blood. They’re those who through patience and love fight to remain in your life. They’re willing to put aside their feelings by loving you through it all. Yes, we play, we...

The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do...

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations...

Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.” Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.” Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says:...

He’s gone so quickly through the system because of his maturity level. He’s talented, and he made adjustments. I think he’s still under the radar. He has tremendous drive, he loves to condition and he’d...

Lately, when I didn’t have room to bitch, I didn’t. Maturity, at last.

…because you are not trying simply to complete a set of books or toys or Weetabix cards, you are trying to complete yourself, to get back to the whole person you were before, as a...

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Self appreciation is a sign of maturity, seeking appreciation is a sign of immaturity

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I’ve noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when...

There’s truths you have to grow into.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life...

The moral crisis she’d just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon...

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

People who have been initiated “broke through in what felt like breaking down”.

your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.

But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very...

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

He was at the height of his maturity. … It’s not just a depiction of him as an artist, it’s more of a psychological portrayal of him — his difficult and somewhat turbulent character, …...

So remember those who win the gameLose the love they sought to gainIn debitures of quality and dubious integrityTheir small-town eyes will gape at youIn dull surprise when payment dueExceeds accounts received at seventeen

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these...