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"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."
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"God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies."
"Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried."
"He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little."
"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."
"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
"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."
"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."
"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
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