Maturation Quotes

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I can't beat you, I can't join you.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.'
Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.'
But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lily's, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonas's had been called a bear.
Here you are, Lily-billy,' he said. 'I'll come help you remove your hair ribbons.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.”
― Dave Harvey

“I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.”
― Allen Steele, Coyote

“A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“(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.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“QUIRK THEORY: Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real-world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

“As we age, we become more aware of the rarity and exquisiteness of beauty, and come to admire the flowers blooming amongst rubble. With each advancing decade, nature’s beauty and the magnificence of life increasingly amazes me. Maturation allows a person to appreciate the springtime frolic of youth and to inventory the knowledge garnered from a rigorous summer reflecting upon adulthood’s long pull. Ageing allows people to free themselves from the strife and strivings of their younger self. Reflective contemplation nurtures the cherished milk of wisdom. I shall rejoice in the commonplace acts of being. Today is an apt time to embrace learning at all stages of life. It is also an apt time to commence exercising the principles of good husbandry by beginning to making preparation for the inevitable freeze of winter.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“And yet it was important that Zachary be squished. The kid had been given his own practice room, a cubicle space lined with eggshell foam and scattered with more guitars than Katz had owned in 30 years. Already, for pure technique, to judge from what Katz had overheard in his comings and goings, the kid was a more hotdog soloist than Katz had ever been or ever would be. But so where a hundred thousand other American highschool boys. So what? Rather than thwarting his father's vicarious rock ambitions by pursuing entomology or interesting himself in financial derivatives, Zachery dutifully aped Jimi Hendrix. Somewhere there had been a failure of imagination.”
― Jonathan Franzen , Freedom

“Growing up does not necessarily mean to fit into the stereotypes of being an adult.
Because maturity comes from a person's wisdom. To truly grow up means to be the wisest person that you can be. Turns out there are still some adults that need to grow up.”
― Lorelei Balansa

“By mastering the slow art of nonreaction, we transform conflict into an opportunity for maturation. We learn to regulate our emotions, communicate far more effectively, and build stronger, more harmonious relationships.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The greatest lessons lay in the greatest failures. And while I prefer not to seek out failure, I will most certainly seek out the lessons that lay within failure.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am far too often ‘caught up’ in the person who I am, verses being ‘drawn up’ into the person I could be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never fear your pain. Rather, let your pain grow you, for our greatest opportunities for growth rest in our darkest moments.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As children learn to cope effectively with various threats (and gain better coping skills as a result of physical and brain maturation), they gradually become less fearful and achieve a growing sense of mastery.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Here's the truth of the matter: growth is not the goal of grieving. Nor is it a mark that someone has grieved well. Grieving is the process of survival, resilience, rebuilding, connecting with the past, redefining your identity, recalibrating your values, and so on. Some people will experience growth as a by-product of this process, but certainly not all. And, those who do feel they've experienced growth often don't see it this way for some time after their loss.

Another little-known truth is that one may feel they have experience growth in their grief yet still feel intense pain over the loss. It's important to talk about the true nature of post-traumatic growth so people understand that it's not an easy path out of or around pain. On the contrary, only through confronting and struggling with pain can such growth and transformation occur.”
― Eleanor Haley, What's Your Grief?: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss

“Tomorrow I will have an entire day to squeeze incredible lessons out of my worst failures. And therefore, my plan is to start squeezing early.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Transformation that is neither fiercely turbulent nor inordinately frightening is not transformation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“[Just] as grass doesn't grow faster when we pull on it,
we can't speed up our maturation!”
― Elke Heinrich

“All the mortal things I had been revering in my life, everything that I was looking up to in awe suddenly came down to eye level in front of me and all the mortal things I had looked down upon and patronized in my life, suddenly rose up to eye level. Now, the world was flat and I was looking it in the eye.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“Any deficit that you have can never stand against the asset that that deficit is waiting to become.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Focus on being the best that you can be, not the best that someone else can be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To mature, to progress, to grow—these require becoming a better version of yourself while acknowledging that experience has made you wiser. Maturation means admitting that (given the chance to turn back time) you would do things in a healthier, calmer, more constructive way based on what you have learned. Progress is shown as you accept and own the mistakes that were made, especially those that resulted in unfortunate consequences for others. The real growth comes when you offer apologies, make amends, and vow never again to repeat those same mistakes.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“Growing up does not necessarily mean to fit into the stereotypes of being an adult. Because maturity comes from a person's wisdom. To truly grow up means to be the wisest person that you can be. Turns out there are still some adults that need to grow up.”
― Lorelei Balansa

“The greatest wound of all is to have healed from our wounds but to have never grown in the healing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A twenty-six-year-old heart has already begun to grow a shell; the shell may have some cracks and fissures, but by the age of thirty-six any remaining fissures would have been sealed.”
― Wang Anyi, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai