Maturity Quotes - Page 8

• When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Real, New Beginnings

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• I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

  Katherine Paterson

  Real, Achieve, Center Of The Universe

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• That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

  Barbara Mertz

  Ignorance, Profound, Parent

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• A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Wisdom, Youth

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.469

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• There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

  Diana Peterfreund

  Giving Up, Mature, Wanted

  Diana Peterfreund (2009). “TAP & GOWN (EBK)”, p.264, Delta

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• A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That`s how maturity comes. Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor. I cannot melt it. I can simply show you how you can drop it.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Reality, Mature Person

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.160, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

  Vernon Howard

  Wise, Spiritual, Teacher

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• In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Ends

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• Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Skills, Long, Effort

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• The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Humility, Doors

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.372, Harper Collins

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• I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Stronger, Overcoming

  "Angelina Jolie: 'What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

  Maria Montessori

  Young, Practicals

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• You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Mature, Company, Chum

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• Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.

  Joyce Meyer

  Spiritual, Self, Discipline

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• Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

  Edward Adam Strecker

  Determination, Jobs, Struggle

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• Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'

  Criss Jami

  Able

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.46, Criss Jami

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• What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.

  Robert Kegan

  Smart, Mean, Exercise

  Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

  Thomas Traherne

  Past, Prudent, Losing

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• If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Children, Struggle

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.91, Revell

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• Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Ann Landers

  Art, Differences, Matter

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• From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

  Carrie Fisher

  Reality, Thinking, Stoic

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

  Kurt Sutter

  Determination, Children, Artist

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• What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Names, Perspective

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• Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to help you over life's pitfalls. You may find, that life's sweetest experiences come when you go to Mom and Dad for help.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mom, Dad, Blessing

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• Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two.

  Nigidius Figulus

  Mean, Two, Too Late

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