“Maturity, the way I understand it," he told me, is knowing what your limitations are.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Being nice to people you don't like isn't called two-faced... it's called growing up. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
“It is a mark of maturity to deal with the problem rather than suppress it” — Dr. Emmanuel Moore Abolo Copy Share Image
Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict. — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
“part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.” — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
The starting point of maturity is the realization that no one is coming to the rescue. Everything you are and everything you… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
For every insult I overlook, I grow more matured. For every single discouragement I receive, I encourage myself twice. No matter what,… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he… — A. W. Tillinghast Copy Share Image
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
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
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
“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
You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
“When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
“Knowing your responsibilities doesn't make you mature but acting up on it does.” — Caroline de Leon Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even those who have average gifts, given a few hundred years, come to maturity.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Being told that you have not changed is not always a compliment.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it. Not that I have much left to prove. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
![“The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered…” quote by Michael Horton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0f/michael-horton-14597_aging_the-key-to-maturity-is-time-and-communit_606437.jpg)
