107 quotes found
“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”
“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.”
“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”
“You are never too old to become younger!”
“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.”
“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...”
“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..!!”
“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...”
“Memory changes as a person matures.”
“It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE IS HARD.”
“Milk for infant as liquor for adult.”
“A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.”
“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 ...”
“A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.”
“Your maturity is based upon your responsibility.”
“But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool...”
“A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistak...”
“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 th...”
“Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.”
“It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”
