"When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue."

Maturity, Youth, Reality, Life, Expectation

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"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Maturity, Independence, Conceit, Growth

"Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Maturity, Travel, Growth, Change

"I'm sorry I changed, life forced me to grow."

Robert Tew, American Writer

Maturity, Change, Growth, Life, Adaptation

"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."

David W. Earle, American Author

Maturity, Learning, Values, Growth

"Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

Maturity, Youth, Romance, Passion, Growth

"Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Maturity, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Happiness

"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."

Wilfrid Sheed, English Novelist

Maturity, American, Possibilities

"When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Maturity, Mistake, Growth, Life, Regret

"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."

Harold MacMillan, English Politician

Maturity, First, Fool, Old

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist

Maturity, Right, Wrong

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

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"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

Reading, Books, Wisdom, Learning

"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."

Friendship, Nostalgia, Distance, Relationship

"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

Greatness, Truth, Ignorance, Wisdom

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

People, Film, Pleasure, Royalty

"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."

Career, Work, Persistence, Failure, Effort

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"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."

"Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened."

"I'm sorry I changed, life forced me to grow."

"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."

"Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up."

"Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others."

"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."

"When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all."

"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Explore more quotes by Doris Lessing

"Literature is analysis after the event."

"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."

"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed."

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."