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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.