It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.
Richard RohrI've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
Orson Scott CardTags: innocence children corruption maturity losing
It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.
Zelda FitzgeraldThe narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.
Zane GreyTags: humility maturity self-evaluation
I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I figured He was powerful enough to know what I wanted without me actually saying the right words.
Richelle MeadAs his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.
Pat ConroyTags: childhood parenting maturity
Yep, I was so mature, I decided I would just have to reward myself by doing the naked lambada with a Federal Agent.
Fiona SkyeCollege was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
Pat ConroyTags: education ambition humility maturity
I am not half the man I use to think I was.
Mike LoffredoTags: maturity
A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.
John O'SullivanTags: satire seriousness maturity
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