249 Quotes About Maturation

How we handle what’s ahead of us will be determined by what we learned from everything that’s behind us. For if we learned nothing, what’s behind us will be the exact same thing that’s in front of us.

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

Character is the main object of education.

It is in the grand contradictions of the deepest soul that great moments of life are afoot.

As for any of us in crisis, hope is the one thing that’s everything.

While the wise person does not invite hardship, the first thing that they see when it shows up is opportunity.

Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.