{"quotes":[{"text":"I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["disappointment","hopeful","jane-green","maturing","romantic-at-heart","st-martin-s-press","summer-secrets"],"id":5188,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"You can’t just be. You have to become.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["adulthood","become","becoming","growing","mature","maturing","maturity","personality","quote","you","yourself"],"id":42492,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["childhood","imagination","imagination","maturation","maturing"],"id":60091,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.' .... 'That's what I thought too,' he said at last, 'when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time . . . It's because he wants to stay inside.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["coming-of-age","finch","jem","lee","maturing","radley","sad","scout"],"id":64551,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"I have outgrown so much, I think at some point we all do ~ we reach a stage in our life where we are forced to make a change, forced to cut friendships, relationships, jobs and places we once called home. At the time, it all feels a little overwhelming nothing stays the same and you have to learn your footing again but I can reassure you once you create the path you wish to walk along, what you left behind won't even matter.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["be-brave","courage","courageous","follow-your-path","freedom","friendships","growth","growth-process","guidance","honesty","life","life","love","maturing","mindful","moving-on","quotes","real-talk","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-love","soul","truth"],"id":74567,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.","author":"G.A. Henty","tags":["adventure","boys","character","classic-adventure","courage","hardship","manliness","maturing","prudence","wisdom"],"id":93813,"author_id":"G.A.+Henty"},{"text":"...It's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.","author":"Sherri Rifkin","tags":["content","growing-up","imperfections","love","maturing","moving-on","real","relationship","relationships"],"id":103672,"author_id":"Sherri+Rifkin"},{"text":"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.","author":"Holy Bible","tags":["belief","childhood","growing-up","maturing"],"id":114881,"author_id":"Holy+Bible"},{"text":"My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call 'breaking' is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.","author":"Jewel","tags":["breaking","broken","growing","innocence","life","life-lessons","living","maturing","spirit","true","truth","truthful","wisdom"],"id":153263,"author_id":"Jewel"},{"text":"You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.","author":"Tasha Alexander","tags":["age","aging-well","fascinating","maturing"],"id":160274,"author_id":"Tasha+Alexander"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}