You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.”

— Alain de Botton

“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But…

— Nenia Campbell

It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

— Harold McGee

“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.”

— Kate Morton

They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence…

— Ari Shavit

You know you've been put down alot when you handle insults better than you do compliments.

— Daviddave

“It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.”

— Moffat Machingura

“there is a big difference between a boy and a man, the level of maturity will tell.”

— Akinwumi jarule

“This is the man who thinks too much, who stands back from his life and never lives it. He is caught in a web…

— Robert L. Moore

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

— Howell Raines

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

— Frank Yerby

“Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence”

— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults.

— Anonymous

“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and of respecting…

— Gabor Maté

“The essential mark of maturity in Christians—as in peach trees—is generativity. Mature faith bears fruit. Mature Christians are branches on which God’s love is…

— Kenda Creasy Dean