Maturity Quotes - Page 28

• It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your “I” is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary “I.” No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Forever, Ordinary

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• In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Morning, Sleep

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Bullying, Clever, Kindness

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• What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

  Christopher Reeve

  Hero, Views, Acting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.

  Tom Robbins

  Struggle, Home, Men

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• 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

  Birthday, Time, Age And Youth

  Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

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• Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

  Diablo Cody

  Maturity Level, Levels, Way

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• Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Thinking, Doctors, Hair

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• Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

  Richard Ford

  Peculiar, Admitting, Way

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.77, A&C Black

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• You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Please, Ifs, Display

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• A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Order, Eggs

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• But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

  David Deida

  Age, Depth, Radiance

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• 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. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

  Woody Allen

  Sweaters, Causes, Yaks

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

  Ricky Williams

  Way, Sometimes

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015

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• He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Art, Skills, Boyhood

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.183, e-artnow

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• The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Science, Years

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• Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Giving, Passion And Purity, Oneself

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• When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Stars, Kids, Thinking

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• To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Battle, Adults

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Progress, Culture, World

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• 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

  Military, Years, Adults

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• And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Lying, Order

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.

  John Edward Williams

  Heart, Heaven, Grace

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• A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Dating, Matter, Environment

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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