maturation

We become what we behold.

Better to wait actively than passively.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.

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.

Childhood is an exploratory period of calculated investigation. The nagging feeling that a child__ 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.

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

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

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

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.

He was not at all what is called __ 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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