I do believe in the old saying, ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Out experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without...

…You don’t always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. … Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be...

Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.

A little part of me dies every time I try to commit suicide. If life is a buffet, I’m still in the mac and cheese phase. Maybe one day I’ll mature into more of a...

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to...

Grow up, Bailey.””That is precisely what I’m doing,” Bailey says. “I don’t care if you don’t understand that. Staying here won’t make me happy. It will make you happy because you’re insipid and boring, and...

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on...

Information can be harmful when you’re not ready for it. [‘The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes’]

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others…

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

You know your Bible too well and life too little.