Clergyman's

“A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.”
— Neal A. Maxwell

“Milk for infant as liquor for adult.”
— Toba Beta

“It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”
— Arthur C. Clarke

“But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.”
— Paul David Tripp

“Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see.”
— Douglas Adams

“It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.”
— Richard Rohr

“Memory changes as a person matures.”
— Siri Hustvedt

“Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you..!!”
— Aagam Shah

“What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.”
— Honoré de Balzac

“It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.”
— George E. Vaillant

“Life is all about practicing for heaven.” p 101.”
— Richard Rohr

“It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.”
— Nicole Krauss

“You are never too old to become younger!”
— Mae West

“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”
— Stephen King

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson