Quotes about Maturity
A man is no bigger than the things which he allows to annoy him.
- Napoleon Hill
In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.
- Catherine Marshall
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
- Billy Graham
I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.
- Anne Lamott
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
- Kathie Lee Gifford
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
- Kathleen Norris
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- CS Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- CS Lewis
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
- Carl Jung
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
- George Bernard Shaw
More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.
- Isabel Allende