maturity

Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.

Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature. You can fill in the names here with your own political disaster story. But just remember, there is a symbiosis between immature groups and immature leaders, I am afraid, which is why both Plato and Jefferson said democracy was not really the best form of government. It is the safest. A truly wise monarch would probably be the most effective at getting things done.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother.

People think I am younger then I really am,because I act so immature.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.

Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother.

The seeds we sow today will grow to serve as shades for weary travellers tomorrow

In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, 'try not to sin', 'be good so that you can go to Heaven', absurd miracles, hyper-fundamentalist tales, religious hypocrites, and Jesus telling people not to judge. There is no horse more dead than such. I maintain that understanding Christianity and the Bible is quite like painting a piece of art. Let a toddler paint a puppy; then let an adult who is a long-time painter paint the very same puppy. They are both paintings of the puppy, but one is far more detailed, rational, realistic, and believable than the other. One is distorted and comical; the other is proportional and lively. One can write off Theology if he so pleases, but he might not be very wise in using the toddler's painting when it comes time to identify the real puppy or when trying to confront actual men of the Faith.

Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.

[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.

Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.