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Quotes About Maturation

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
~ Jim George
"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."
~ Charles Dickens
I used to be a dusty little child.
~ Mike Epps
In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely.
~ Jenna Wortham
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.
~ Italo Calvino
It's plainly becoming quite an imperative. Survival, as I found out a long time ago, triggers the most basic, fundamental responses in an organic form. An individual, a species… It will do almost anything, evolve in almost any way it can, in order to stay alive. I called it the Existential Maturation Trigger.
~ Dan Abnett
The rate of brain maturation is largely influenced by the genes we inherit.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.
~ Drew Bledsoe
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
~ Lucinda Williams
I didn't want to invade his privacy; I didn't want to fight with him; I didn't want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted him to be a child forever." She glanced up, crying harder now. "But you can't do that, if you're a parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up.
~ Jodi Picoult
Just when the caterpillar thinks that it is all grown up, it becomes a butterfly. Happy Birthday Butterfly.
~ Unknown
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
~ Frederick Lenz
Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
~ Benito Mussolini
I have to evolve as an actor.
~ Gautam Rode
I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.
~ Carrot Top
I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
I'm such a late bloomer.
~ Ang Lee
I was definitely a late bloomer.
~ Clay Matthews III
I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.
~ Allison Janney
I was a late bloomer.
~ Adore Delano
I'm a late bloomer in music.
~ Sharon Van Etten
I've learnt more in two years at Juventus than in my entire life.
~ Alvaro Morata
I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.
~ Aisha Tyler
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
~ James Agee