All Quotes By Tag: Maturity
“With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.”
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“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.”
“You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.”
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“Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell. This isn’t failure, but it’s a sign of maturity and learning on your part. All you need to do is rethink what you wanted to do, in the first place,and see what you can change.Then that is called determination and that, will lead to you having success.”
“Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”
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“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
“By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.”
“At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about ‘petty personal problems’ was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one’s own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can’t be yours alone. […] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one’s unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.”
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“As theologians, we must say more than we can be in the hope that others will make us more than we are. What is crucial is that we not write to justify the limits of our lives.”
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“The more one knows, the sooner one grows old,” Midnight returned cheerfully.”
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“The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.”
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