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Maturity Is Quotes

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
- Larry Mcmurtry

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
- Aristophanes

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
- Mason Cooley

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
- Jim Rohn

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

To my everlasting relief, he'd also stopped with the starch a few years back. The military made him big on spray starch, but I point-blank refused to touch the stuff after a while. He finally gave up doing it himself, and I manfully restrained myself from pointing out that the world didn't explode when he did. And they say maturity is just for adults.
- Lilith Saintcrow

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
- Anthony Doerr

Maturity is produced through relationships and community.
- Rick Warren

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up:that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child, and that if theses faculties are encouraged in youth they will act well and wisely in the adult, but if they are repressed and denied in the child they will stunt and cripple the adult personality.
- Ursula K Le Guin

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
- Thomas A Edison

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

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
- Jules Feiffer

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
- Carrie Fisher

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
- Witold Gombrowicz

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.
- Julius Gordon

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
- Martha Graham

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
- Tom Stoppard

My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!
- Tuula Kallioniemi

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.
- Immanuel Kant

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
- Immanuel Kant

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
- Joshua L Liebman

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.
- Susan Maushart

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216
- Fatema Mernissi

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.
- Osho

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

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
- Benjamin Spock

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