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"Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners."
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"The maturity of man-that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play."
"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
"Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity."
"To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water's edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore."
"Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives."
"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."
"She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache."
"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."
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"Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand."
"The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain for isn't this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people."
"Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false."
"When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said."
"A spiritual hell I lived in hating the God of love and knowing the god I served, hated me!"
"We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital 'T or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small 't, seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness."
"Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind."
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