“Adults create perennial sellers—and adults take responsibility for themselves. Children expect opportunities to be handed to them; maturity is understanding you have… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Through life's ups and downs and challenges to be faced, being in relationship will allow you to learn things that will make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People's sense of self worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they've caused. The more solid one's… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth.… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its… — Prince Copy Share Image
It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need… — Nick Corcodilos Copy Share Image
“What we want to do in this moment is rarely what's best for us. We need to take a longer view of… — Vince Antonucci Copy Share Image
When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day.… — Matthieu Ricard 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
'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
If we recover something like a functioning, well-informed democratic polity - if it hasn't been wrecked for good by the people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not… — Dara Torres Copy Share Image
The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies; Remembering this, he keeps his attitude unstructured at all times and thus… — Laozi Copy Share Image
My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
“We may be grown-up biologically, but in terms of a spiritual journey, we are children. When you were a child, you probably… — Dana Williams Copy Share Image
“...because you are not trying simply to complete a set of books or toys or Weetabix cards, you are trying to complete… — Neil Perryman Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity that restricts to only conformity, faith, devotion and obedience without practicing accountability, morality, transparency and integrity is just pure spiritual… — Michael Chuang Copy Share Image
Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
