Growing Mature Quotes

#1. Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing.

Kemi Sogunle

#3. Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Bryant McGill

#4. I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

Billy Connolly

#5. The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Dan Brown

#6. Use your struggles as fuel to enrich your life, and psych your spirit into having fun.

C.C. Wyatt

#7. Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!

Dr. Todd M. Fink

#8. I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger.

Lexi Thompson

#9. The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

Michael A. Stackpole

#10. At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

Laurence Steinberg

#11. Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

William Rounseville Alger

#12. As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Joseph Stowell

#13. Jealousy is the opposite of maintaining and growing in a relationship. Jealousy includes elements of fear, anger, suspicion, and control that have no place in a mature relationship.

Darrel Ray

#14. The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking," as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.

Steve Maraboli

#15. Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Bonnie Hunt

#16. I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

James Anthony Froude

#17. There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.

Devendra Banhart

#18. There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

Mark Twain

#19. Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

Buzz Aldrin

#20. A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

Susan Jane Gilman

#21. I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

Nina Hagen

#22. Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

E.L. Doctorow

#23. We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from others.
But it is our mom and dad we turn to when we're in trouble or can't find the answer to a question.

Maurice J. Dubois

#24. Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Rajneesh

#25. I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

Sheryl Crow

#26. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

J.D. Salinger

#27. Protect her, love her, kiss her, hug her, hold her, smile with her, laugh with her. But don't make her fall if you don't plan to catch her.

Naghilia Desravines

#28. Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

Malcolm Forbes

#29. Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

John McCain

#30. Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

Neil Diamond

#31. IF EVERYONE HAS A full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven't been.

Gloria Steinem

#32. Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

Jeffrey Kluger