#maturity

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#art #been #before #common #doing

A few people of integrity can go a long way. ↗

— Bill Kauth

#integrity #maturity #change

Memory changes as a person matures. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#memory #change

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#eternity #free-will #maturity #melancholy #pain

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are... ↗

— John Geddes

#identity #maturity #change

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#graduation #growth #insight #maturity #teenager

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#spiritual-development #change

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ↗

— Edward Weeks

#fear #maturity #courage

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment. ↗

— Myles Munroe

#maturity #dating

Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom. ↗

— Erica Goros

#change #inspirational-quotes #life #maturity #trials