Accepting Quote by Ernest Kurtz

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's…

— Terri E Apter

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead…

— Richard Ford

Parents need to acknowledge the good and accept the bad

— IF

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they…

— Oscar Wilde

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids…

— Joshua L. Liebman

Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond…

— William C. Menninger

“Maturity Is Knowing Who You Choose Matters Most. We don’t choose our parents. We don’t choose our children. But we do choose the one…

— Matheesha Prathapa

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

— Anais Nin

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.

— Oscar Wilde

We can never repay our parents, for the values they instill in us give us the personality that forms our identity. It is through…

— Anonymous