Maturity Quotes - Page 10

• Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Age, Christianity, Obedience

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• You expect two-year olds to wear diapers and make a mess with just about everything they touch. We have to allow the young in Christ to be immature, and yes, make messes. Young and immature prophetic people will act like young and immature prophetic people. The belief that some have tried to impose on the prophetic - that if you made one mistake you are a false prophet - inhibits their maturity, or worse, it can profoundly distort their character.

  Rick Joyner

  Mistake, Character, Two Year Olds

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• There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Book, Adults, Needs

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

  Anton Chekhov

  Thinking, Men, Feelings

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others”, p.1929, e-artnow

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• Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

  Douglas Adams

  Children, Order, Perfect

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

  Neil Young

  Mountain, Sugar

  "Song: You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain (Album:Live Rust)". 1979.

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• Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

  Dave Ramsey

  Beautiful, Money, Horse

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Nov 01, 2009

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• Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Mother, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

  Rob Lowe

  Thinking, Knowing Who You Are, Knowing

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

  Frank Thomas

  Past, Thinking, Rising

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• We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

  Janet Yellen

  Shadow, Banking, Needs

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• maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mistake, Thinking, Long

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 09, 2011

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• Grown men do not need leaders.

  Edward Abbey

  Leadership, Men, Needs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald

  Eye, Arms, Stage

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• In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Children, Adults, Fruit

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• Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond our families to the community, to the state, to the nation, and to this shrinking little world.

  William C. Menninger

  Capacity To Love, People, Community

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• The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Art, Lying

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Mean, Hard, Values

  Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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

  Paul Theroux

  Peace, Drag, Johnson

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

  LeVar Burton

  Illusion, Shattered, Series

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• People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1986). “The Wisdom of Heschel”, p.114, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Clarity, Habit, Stability

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.43, Rodale

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• For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  People, Coaching, Rooms

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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