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Quotes About Maturation

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
~ Rumi
I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
~ Umberto Eco
Martin Luther once said, "We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
~ Ed Hindson
These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.
~ Ed McBain
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
~ Edmund Burke
Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?
~ Anonymous
The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
~ Anonymous
Parvis e glandibus quercus [Tall oaks from little acorns grow].
~ Anonymous: Latin
I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.
~ Alice Munro
Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
~ Wendi McLendon-Covey
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
~ Kenneth Lonergan
In 2016, I was pretty green. I was budding. Some flowers were shooting off.
~ Borns
We're always evolving. It forces us to grow.
~ Trevor Jackson
had time to grow
~ Frank Roderus
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
~ William James
As long as Mumma was alive, she knew that some small part of herself had remained a child, cherished and adored. Perhaps you never completely grew up until your mother died.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.
~ Louise Erdrich
For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It
~ M. Scott Peck
Cresci naturalmente, como crescem as magnólias e os gatos. Talvez os gatos são menos matreiros, e, com certeza, as magnólias menos inquietas.
~ Machado de Assis
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
Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother
~ Isra
A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.
~ Habeeb Akande
A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Learning is a continuous and ongoing process.
~ Andrew Hunt