Admitting Quote by Richard Ford

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes…

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.”

— Alain de Botton

Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

— Ann Landers

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

— Alexei Panshin

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

— Anonymous

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

— Sydney J. Harris

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.

— M.J. Croan

“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the…

— Roy T. Bennett

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

— Richard Rohr

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

— Oren Arnold