Maturity Quotes - Page 27

• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Nature, Delight

  Washington Irving (1835). “The Beauties”, p.202

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• One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Men, Years

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• I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

  Dara Torres

  Winning, Dedication, Focus

  Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.216, Three Rivers Press

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• Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Silly, Craving, Silly Things

  Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Mirrors

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• Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

  Brennan Manning

  Fashion, Live Life, Reality

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• It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Mind, Favors, Doe

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• Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Growing Up, Church, Serious

  Eugene H. Peterson (2010). “Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

  William S. Burroughs

  Caution

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• It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Discovery, Years, Doubt

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.249, Applewood Books

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

  Fatema Mernissi

  Feelings, Caress, Ifs

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• If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Loss, Sorrow, Together

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.24, Penguin

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• By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Beautiful, Children, Wall

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• I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

  Duff Goldman

  College, Years, Levels

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• If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Cutting, Exercise, Compassion

  "The Happiest Man in the World". "Speaking of Faith" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 12, 2009.

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• I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

  Bob Dylan

  Pages, Be Young

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• While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

  Paul Claudel

  Lying, People, Giving

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• To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable.
  The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Art, Would Be

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• Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

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• Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  People, Doe, Pushing

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• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Years, Long

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Long, People

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• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

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• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Marriage, Children

  Tunnel of Love (1954) ch. 8

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• Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Childhood, Stories

  "Wilderness".

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