I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity… — Al Jarreau 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
The first song that I wrote that I was proud of was probably 'Hunter' from the first record. But I listen that… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
“Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly believe that… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Scientists used to think the brain reached maturity around the age of 25 years and then deteriorated. Now we know it’s much… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
“I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a… — Nicola Barker Copy Share Image
“In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
“Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“some students look at the problems that they're facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just… — Shankar Vedantam Copy Share Image
I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been… — Ziauddin Yousafzai 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
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
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