44 Quotes About Maturing

As fruit ripens in the course of nature, so it is in the course of nature that the soul should mature; and it is no use being disappointed or disheartened.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

You can’t just be. You have to become.

Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.

I am maturing by unlearning everythingthat I was once taught on the pretext of survival.I have learnt that survival comes to you naturally.I am neither taming my thoughts, nor letting them run wild.They snuggle to me like a sick childand I put them to sleep with no anxiety whatsoever.I am not hurting, nor healing.I am doing just fine.

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

School is the place we all have to go. There is potential. School is about the future. Looking forward to something, progression, growing, maturing. It's supposed to be safe here, but is has become the opposite. It feels like a prison.

It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.

I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.