Quotes about Maturity

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.

All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

I suppose we'll get used to being grownup in time. There won't be so many unexpected things about it by and by—though, after all, I fancy it's the unexpected things that give spice to life.

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once, said Anne gaily. You see, I was little for fourteen years and I've only been grown-uppish for scarcely three.

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth" (1 John 1:8). It seems God leads us through failure toward maturity, rather than doing whatever is needed for us to move past ongoing failure.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.