249 Quotes About Maturation

At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.