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"Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried."
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Personal Development
"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."
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Personal Development
"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
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Personal Development
"That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this."
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"Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost."
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Personal Development
"Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom."
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Personal Development
"She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much."
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Personal Development
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
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"You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom.Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you."
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"You don't tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man."
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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."
Philosophy
"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
Life
"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Work
"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Living
"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
Truth
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
People
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