Aging Quote by Dag Hammarskjold

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“‎The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Maturity is knowing when to be immature.

— Randall Hall

The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need which has…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they do nothing.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Maturity means acknowledging that Romantic love might only constitute a narrow and perhaps rather mean-minded aspect of emotional life, one principally focused on a…

— Alain de Botton

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

— Oren Arnold

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

— Richard Rohr

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

— Elizabeth Gilbert