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"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
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Personal Development
"Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners."
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Personal Development
"Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it."
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Personal Development
"I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside."
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Personal Development
"When you'retwenty-one, life is a roadmap.It's only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect you've beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until you'reforty are you entirely sure."
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Personal Development
"Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension."
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Personal Development
"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
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Personal Development
"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."
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Personal Development
"For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress - to the future."
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Personal Development
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
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"Doing life without God is not doing life."
Faith
"In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light."
Light
"If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not."
Truth
"Love in the service of self is greed in disguise."
Love
"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
Family
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
Ethics
"Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort."
Character
"Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless."
Faith
"Too often it's about what stands before us, not what stands within us."
Truth
"I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don't even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God's plans undo what I've done that's undoing me."
Faith
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