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• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Illusions, Feeling, Maturity, Happiness

• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – attributed in error

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Age, Children, Education, Humor, Wisdom

  Tags in Learning, Maturity

• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Future, Life

  Tags in Now, Change/Growth, Diversity, Chaos, Maturity

• I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

  David Kay

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Maturity

• The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  Dan Quayle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Maturity

• Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Samuel Ullman

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Maturity, Act

• Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Maturity, Play

• To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

  William Arthur Ward

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Maturity

• Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

  Robert Blair

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Whole, Maturity, Makes

• How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

  Barry Lopez

  Topics in Confusion, Life

  Tags in Ethics, Responsibility, Duty, Evil, Questions, Maturity, Choice, Choosing

• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Control, Maturity, Destiny

• When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

  Victoria Principal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Firmly, Maturity, Mature

• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Maturity

• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adolescence, Only, Short, Break, Maturity

• You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Maturity

• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we stop saying “It got lost,” and say “I lost it.”

  Sydney J. Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Duty, Maturity

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Maturity

• If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

  Mary Beth Danielson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dreams, Maturity

• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Saltiness, Maturity

• A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Maturity