Maturity Quotes - Page 29

• So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Youth, Yearning, Discarded

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• Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

  Dan Brown

  Emotional, Brain, Special

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.381, Knopf

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• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  Mary Esther Harding

  Masculine And Feminine, Personality, Sides

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Doe, Moral

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• The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Powerful

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• My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

  James Joyce

  Country, Writing, Men

  "A brief survey of the short story part 32: James Joyce" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.

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• In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Fate, Sacrifice

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• Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Responsibility, Tough Times

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Years, Accomplishment, Doe

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• The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

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• We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mistake, Age, Devil

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2011). “The Midnight Palace”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Southern, Charity, Explanation

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• The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Baby, Children

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• Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Mirrors

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• India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Pain, Passion, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “The Quintessence of Nehru”

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

  Carol Shields

  Selfish, Years, Wish

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• Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, Doubt, Preparation

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Moving, Home, Childhood

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Rights

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• Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Life, Wisdom, Stars

  "Socialism in One Galaxy?" by Nicole Colson, socialistworker.org. September 15, 2016.

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• there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Wisdom, Answers, Lines

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• The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.

  R. K. Milholland

  Grass, Lawns, Greener

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• Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

  William James

  Spiritual, Children, Essence

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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