Maturity Quotes

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Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 — Fatema Mernissi
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,… — Fatema Mernissi
Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept… — Nicola Barker
In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out. — Lindsey Vonn
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual… — Kenny Smith
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord.… — Pope Benedict XVI
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour… — Washington Irving
And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it… — John F. Kennedy
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't… — Greg Egan
The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are. — Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. — Jane Austen
Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we… — Harry Herbert Miller
If men had more up top we'd need less up front — Jaci Stephen
Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between… — Stephen Covey
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of… — Anthony Doerr
There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy. — Erwin W. Lutzer
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. — Flannery O'Connor
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and… — Robert Breault
Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity. — Howard G. Hendricks

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