Quotes About Growing Up And Maturing

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#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. 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

#4. 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

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

J.R. Tompkins

#6. I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

John Fogerty

#11. ...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

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

Cobi Jones

#13. 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

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

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

Jane Casey

#16. 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

#17. The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Maimonides

#18. 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

#19. A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.

Haile Gerima

#20. Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Myself