249 Quotes About Maturation

Tobin Hart calls play “the holy work of children” that helps them “find and define themselves.”[2]

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

If I have not challenged you to something better, I have doomed you to something worse.

Remember, laying on the ground looking up grants us an invaluable perspective that will dramatically enhance what everything will look like when we’re back on our feet.

Sitting down with a great book means that when you stand up, you will be a completely different person from who you were when you sat down.

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.

We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every person’s supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of his or her intellectual, ethical, and spiritual attainment.

If I’m concerned about why I’ve changed in the way I have, I might start being concerned about the places where I’ve been.

Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.