Quotes About Maturation

I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

The benefits of letting produce finish on their plant, in its natural environment, is undeniable.

Guys really do get better as the playoffs go along.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

When you were small, you would swing yourself up legs-first, but now you have to stick your head through the opening in the floor and then hoist the rest. You certainly have grown, you tell yourself.

One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. —CARL JUNG, THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE PSYCHE

If I had still been an immortal, I might have flirted with her myself. But I was now a sixteen-year-old boy. My mortal form was working its way upon my state of mind. I saw Sally Jackson as a mom—a fact that both consternated and embarrassed me. I thought about how long it had been since I had called my own mother. I should probably take her to lunch when I got back to Olympus.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Ethel recordaba cómo le habían crecido los pechos a Dilys más o menos por la época en que se dio cuenta de que en realidad sí podías quedarte embarazada haciéndolo de pie.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Turnings come in cycles of four. Each cycle spans the length of a long human life, roughly eighty to one hundred years, a unit of time the ancients called the saeculum. Together, the four turnings of the saeculum comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and destruction:

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

Finally, often as we relax or "tune out" other distractions, sometime after "retirement" for example, some previously hidden, latent interests, talents or abilities quite suddenly, and surprisingly, emerge. Sometimes that emergence is actually a re-kindling of some earlier childhood abilities, such as art, for whatever reason set aside with maturation and "growing up.

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now

A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential.

I am not grown up, because I grow everyday.

My kindness is the old version of my life, I have grown up.

Static living, static decisions, static personality is inconsistent with the biblical picture of the new life. Where there is life there is growth, 1 and growth means change. Growth means maturation; it means refining of ideas and ways of doing things. So a Christian counselee must not be allowed to plead that he is what he is and nothing can be done about it.

There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.

Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby. Everything I have ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am