Maturity Quotes

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My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity. — Bruno Schulz
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison
Itâ€™s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to… — Richard Rohr
To my everlasting relief, heâ€™d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray starch, but I… — Lilith Saintcrow
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not… — Toni Morrison
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. — Carol Shields
I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our… — Sheri S. Tepper
maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as… — Nicholas Sparks
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were… — Albert Einstein
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be… — Orson Scott Card
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of â€˜not knowing. — Mark Z. Danielewski
The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms… — Kate Morton
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow… — Vincent Price
Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters. — Lewis Buzbee
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know? — Carrie Fisher
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the… — Jeannette Walls
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we… — Elisabeth Elliot
Hereâ€™s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how… — Joyce Meyer

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