Quotes about Maturity

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable. He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

Christians are not born but made.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life