Quotes About Maturation

Growth is the only evidence of life.

It's funny how much of who we are as babies is who we are as we get older.

The pleasurable qualities associated with the previous ego phase, once that system is outgrown, become painful for the ego of the next phase.

For from this day forward his world can only widen. An existence that began in a crib, grew to a house, and extends over a two-block bicycle ride will now go even beyond that. I will share him with another woman, other adults, other children, other opinions, other points of view. I am no longer leading. I am standing behind him ready to guide from a new position.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Growth is a painful process.

To have produced a product where I had total creative control and see it flourish is like watching a baby grow.

Every day is an extension of my growth, of every thing I've become and want to become.

You've got to grow up sometime.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

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Adults are deteriorated children

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood:

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

At some point you can no longer insist that your children do this or that. I had learned this lesson the hard way. You have to let them fall down and then you can help them get back up. But you have to let them become adults.

I didnt change; I grew up. You should try it sometime

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.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Don't go through life, grow though life

My wife is pregnant, and her physician told her that physiologically and medically speaking, there are three different kinds of humans: men, women, and pregnant women. I think the same idea applies to you, Edward. There are grown-ups, children, and then you. You don't feel like a kid anymore, right?" Edward nods. "But you won't be an adult for years. You're something else, and we need to figure out what you are, so we can figure out how to help you.

The great theme we all share is that of becoming ourselves, of overcoming our father and mother, of assuming our identities somehow.

The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time. The former is a dramatic, observable, and well-circumscribed event; the latter a slowly unfolding intrapsychic process.