Maturation Quotes - Page 2

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

Eric Metaxas

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

Donald Miller

Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. Sexual debility results in a lowering of self-confidence. In one case it is compensated by the brutalization of sexuality, to maintain sexual repression, in the other by rigid character traits. The compulsion to control one's sexuality, to maintain sexual repression, leads to the development of pathologic, emotionally tinged notions of honor and duty, bravery and self-control. But the pathology and emotionality of these psychic attitudes are strongly at variance with the reality of one's personal behavior. The man who attains genital satisfaction, is honorable, responsible, brave, and controlled, without making much of a fuss about it. These attitudes are an organic part of his personality. The man whose genitals are weakened, whose sexual structure is full of contradictions, must continually remind himself to control his sexuality, to preserve his sexual dignity, to be brave in the face of temptation, etc. The struggle to resist the temptation to masturbate is a struggle that is experienced by every adolescent and every child, without exception. All the elements of the reactionary man's structure are developed in this struggle. It is in the lower middle classes that this structure is reinforced most strongly and embedded most deeply. Every form of mysticism derives it's most active energy and, in part, also it's content from this compulsory suppression of sexuality.

Wilhelm Reich

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

Charles Dickens

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

Frank Herbert

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Joseph J. Ellis

You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.

Richard Rohr

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?

Friedrich Nietzsche

We become what we behold.

Matt Chandler

Better to wait actively than passively.

Stephen L. Carter

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

Frank Herbert

Childhood is an exploratory period of calculated investigation. The nagging feeling that a child’s life has not really began until he or she attains adulthood makes growing up both a whimsical and fretful time. Childhood is not all merriment since a child realizes that seamless youthful days are an experiment for adulthood.

Kilroy J. Oldster

A person who could withstand such dreadful insults from his or her enemies can have the ability to reach his or her potentials by becoming socially, educationally and economically successful.

Saaif Alam

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.

Kilroy J. Oldster

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

Jonathan V Last

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

Paul C. Nagel

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

Charles Finch

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

George Eliot

At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked.

Last Man Standing

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

Evelyn Waugh

We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now.

Girl Meets World

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

H.W. Brands

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

Madam Secretary

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

Patrick Hennessey

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

Rachel DiCarlo Currie

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

Philip Zaleski

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

Harold Holzer

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

Charles Dickens

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

Jim Bouton

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

Jim Bouton

I was young enough to be an optimist.

Mike Mussina

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

Karl Barth

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

David Brooks

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.

Rick Perlstein

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

Will Durant

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Will Durant

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

Thomas L. Friedman

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

Ron Jacobs

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Barbara W. Tuchman

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

Geraldine Brooks

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Sherry Turkle

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

Andrew Zolli

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

James Carl Nelson

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind.

Sherry Turkle

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

Harold Bloom

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

Matt Chandler

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.

Plato

Character is the main object of education.

Mary Wooley

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

Tom Clancy

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

Sol Luckman

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

Jennifer Senior

Considerable social science research has found that constant praise of children can backfire, because it so often consists of telling children how smart they are, not of praising children for the things they actually do. As a result, many children become protective of their image of being smart and are reluctant to take chances that might actually damage that image.

Charles Murray

One of the benefits the authors point out of discussing logical consequences with children rather than handing out arbitrary punishments is that the practice gives THEM the language to discuss One of the benefits the authors point out of discussing logical consequences with children rather than handing out arbitrary punishments is that the practice gives THEM the language to discuss seting boundaries and making decisions, even in conflicts with their friends.

Adele Faber

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

Gary Chapman

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

Facts of Life

He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?

Frank Herbert

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

H.W. Brands

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