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

  William Arthur Ward

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• The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity.

  Paul Theroux

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  Tags in Corps, Maturity

• I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

  Jane Badler

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  Tags in Creativity, Maturity

• Maturity is not when we start speaking big things. It is when we start understanding small things..

  Unknown

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• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Absurd, Most, Often, Maturity

• 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

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

  Sigmund Freud

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• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  Vera Brittain

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Plagiarism, Immaturity, Men, 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

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• 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

• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Change/Growth, Maturity, Philosophy

• 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

• Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.”
  Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.”
  Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.”
  Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Art, Love

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• 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

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Humor

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• 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

• 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

• 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