Quotes about Maturation

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Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives. — C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bo — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind. — Will Durant
Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer. — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it. — David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Not every story started off big enough to notice. — Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts. — Joseph J. Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place. — Charles Williams
As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn’t, it can’t blame its nonexistent emotions. It shou — Aaron Earls
How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you? — David Brooks
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up thei — Larry Eskridge, God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America
Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality. — Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall s — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama. — Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of — David Brooks
The author jokes that the culture at his first job at Entertainment Weekly chased away the worthwhile aspects of his Bro — A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's — H.W. Brands
The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me. — Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts