Quotes about Maturation

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

The development of the artist provides a profound model of the process of maturation.

Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?

The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

And what it [a future myth] will have to deal with will be exactly what all myths have dealt with — the maturation of the individual, from dependency through adulthood, through maturity, and then to he exit; and then how to relate to this society and how to relate this society to the world of nature and the cosmos.

Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.