Maturing And Growing Up Quotes

#1. ...it's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.

Sherri Rifkin

#2. My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

Jewel

#3. Ayla just didn't seem like a woman who was about to join and establish a new hearth with a man she loved. There was no joy, no excitement. Something was missing. Something called Jondalar.

Jean M. Auel

#4. His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body, the body of a half-wit, somebody was growing old, although he had not lived; somebody was maturing to a death that had no meaning at all.

Bruno Schulz

#5. In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Steve Berry

#7. I always believed in shooting for the top, and to become an American is like becoming a member of the winning team.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#8. We often concentrate on the negative side of the humanity, but humanity is growing, maturing every day, and to sign the song of a better future.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.

J.R. Tompkins

#11. There were ones with garden supplies and ones with health supplies, but neither offered anything remotely appropriate. There

Barbara Delinsky

#12. Did he not know that there was a lower point, yet, when you had accepted your own fate but found yourself too weak to go through with it? The point at which you understood you had made not a single ripple in the pond, and neither would your loss.

Lori Rader-Day

#13. There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.

Christine McVie

#14. The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

Lee Strobel

#15. You cant ever know anyone completely, can you? I mean, we're ever changing, maturing, growing ... Each day we're confronted by new outside influences that have us forever making decisions that take us one or two steps in one direction or the other - continually altering our course. - Jason Miller

Ethan Day

#16. The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

Cobi Jones

#17. The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more likely they are to do what they can to protect it.

Jon Bowermaster

#18. Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

Bill Hicks

#20. The simple act of committing to an answer makes the students more engaged and more curious about the outcome.

Chip Heath

#21. Some things can't be taught; they can only be discovered.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

Francesca Lia Block

#23. What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

Jeb Bush

#24. Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?

Will Schwalbe

#25. Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

J.I. Packer

#26. How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend.
How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how
painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up,
become part of another.

Virginia Woolf

#27. it seems that man has learned
not to see
not to know
for he's found the pot
of gold
but lost the rainbow...

Barry DeCarli

#28. Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning ... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

Chidi Okonkwo

#29. Life is but a journey growing and maturing the soul.

Myself