"Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened."

Maturity, Travel, Growth, Change

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"Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened."

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"Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished."

Lois McMaster Bujold, American Writer

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"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

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"You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness."

Cheryl Strayed, American Writer

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"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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Maturity, Youth, Guidance, Future

"Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom."

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"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives."

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"In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do."

Fredrik Backman, Swedish Author

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"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."

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"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."

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"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."

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"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one."

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"Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher."

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"The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is."

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"Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished."

"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."

"You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness."

"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."

"Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives."

"Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom."

"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."

"When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives."

"In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do."

"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."

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"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."

"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."

"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."

"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one."

"Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher."

"The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is."