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• To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

  Richard Rohr

  Giving, Demand, Crossover

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• Emotional healing is almost always a process. It takes time. There is a very important reason for this. Our heavenly Father is not only wanting to free us from the pain of past wounds, he is also desirous of bringing us into maturity, both spiritually and emotionally. That takes time, because we need time to learn to make the right choices. He loves us enough to take the months and years necessary to not only heal our wounds, but also build our character. Without growth of character we will get wounded again.

  Floyd McClung

  Pain, Father, Healing

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• One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Becoming, Mark, Ability

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.159, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

  Ricky Williams

  Change, Thinking, Expression

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• maturity ... is letting things happen.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Acceptance, Letting Things Happen, Happens

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Suicidal

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

  Leo Baeck

  Men, Giving, Guilt

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• It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

  Helen Mirren

  Eight, Years, Getting Older

  Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Jobs, Eight

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Expression, Servant Of God, Church

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• To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Separation, Mature, Grows

  Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press

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• 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

  Martha Graham

  Acceptance, Years, Age

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• My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, People, Enough

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.75, Penguin

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• If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Time, Ambition

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• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hurt, People, Want

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.49, Thomas Nelson

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• The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies; Remembering this, he keeps his attitude unstructured at all times and thus is always free to pursue the Integral Way. He studies the teachings of the masters. He dissolves all concepts of duality. He pours himself out in service to others.

  Laozi

  Mature Person, Service To Others, Persons

  "Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu".

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• Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Believe, Heart, Soul

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• Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Grandparent, Duration

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.72

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• Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

  Brennan Manning

  Fashion, Live Life, Reality

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

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• The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Differences, Judging

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.254, Macmillan

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Husband

  "Older & Wiser". Book edited by G. B. Dianda and B. J. Hofmayer, 1995.

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• Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.

  Wes Fesler

  Wise, Mankind, Grows

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• It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

  Livy

  Teacher, Time, Teaching

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