Quotes about Maturity

The fact is, we grow in difficult times. That's when character is developed. ... Growth comes when you have to overlook an insult, forgive a wrong, and do the right thing even when the wrong thing is happening.

You shouldn't be constantly uptight, worried, rebuking, resisting, and trying to fix things. It takes a mature person to say, "Everything is not perfect. I have some struggles and some situations I wish were different, but can I tell you that all is well? I'm at peace. I'm not upset. I know at the right time God will remove the weeds. Until then I'm going to relax and enjoy my life." First the Weed, Then the Harvest

It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not. Knowing what you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who you are, because there will always be pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other.

Every storm you went through, every bad break, and every dark, lonely season deposited something on the inside. It pushed you to mature, pushed you to trust God in a greater way, pushed you to be more resilient and determined.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

I grow spiritually when I accept responsibility for my life.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.