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"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
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"She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much."

"You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind."

"A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification."

"You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them."

"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."

"Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman."

"A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person's bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests."
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"While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change."

"I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood."

"Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?"

"It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others."

"And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast."

"Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older."

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

"That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases."
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