If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. — Mary Beth Danielson Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
STUDENT OF BUSINESS Age is never a factor, rather a youthful mind and a willingness to learn. Maturity is to embrace and… — Bobby Compton Copy Share Image
“That's not fair!" Charlotte said. "I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.” — Michaela MacColl Copy Share Image
I've grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having… — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
Turning 40 is often a big symbolic point in one's life. In the 20s we feel we can do anything, but as… — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share Image
The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force… — Frank Griswold Copy Share Image
“She looked stunned. “I feel like I don't know you anymore.” “You never did,” I replied, just as coolly. “You were always… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
...you are typically free to mingle with your fellow follicles without having to worry about them invoking unwanted nastiness. The only thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“degree of maturity in the level of personal identification with social, political, or religious ideologies; second, an ability to resist regression when… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand why they act that way towards you. As the result,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is having the courage to hang on when you want to let go. Courage is having the strength to let go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
I forgive You in advance, You Havn't Offended Me, Aint a Kid Spiritually, call It Spiritual Maturity — Miles Ethereal Copy Share Image
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level. — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I grew up. I stopped letting people push me around all the time. I learned that you can't always be happy. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Immature people always want to win an argument even at the cost of a relationship. Mature people understand that its always better… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
RElAtIoN aN maTuRitY… iMmAtUrE pErSoNs aLwAyS wAnT tO wIn aRgUmEnTs aT tHe cOSt oF a rElAtIoN... mAtUrE pErSoNS pReFeRs tO loSiNG aRgUmEnT… — Sunny Copy Share Image
“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“I don't care that you are not a young twink. I like to think that I'm picking you at your peak.” — Alicia Nordwell Copy Share Image
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt. — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
Your spiritual maturity depends on your willingness to face, forgive, and forget past offense. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The older we get, the more clear it becomes that loving and being loved are the only really important things in life. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“When you’re young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
