When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
maturity childishness adult
There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
maturity questions answers
Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
maturity
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
youth maturity
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
maturity on-writing
There's truths you have to grow into.
maturity disillusionment
If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree oran oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?
maturity conformity
Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.
maturity anita-blake
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
maturity strength-of-character manhood
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
places birth maturity
Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.
order maturity kingdom-of-god
Grown men do not need leaders.
men maturity
Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy.
maturity coming-of-age
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
youth maturity lost-love yearning
It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive
(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 before.
maturity spiritual-development
Yo creo que se puede establecer una división entre la juventud y la madurez. La juventud acaba cuando termina el egoÃsmo; la madurez se inicia cuando se vive para los demás.
Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.
funny maturity jane-jameson
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
discipline duty maturity
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
maturity contemplation
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
maturity discipleship training
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
maturity curiosity sense-of-humor
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