"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging."

Maturity, Life, Growth, Aging

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"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging."

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"Delayed gratification is what makes a man."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension."

Rick Warren, American Writer

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"I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Maturity, Growth, Truth, Pain, Power

"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."

Mary Balogh, Canadian Author

Maturity, Reality, Love, Expectation, Marriage

"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."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"We need to mature in the knowledge of God and His word, and then our faith will grow as well."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Maturity, Knowledge, Faith, Growth

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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"At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people."

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"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy, a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."

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"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

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"All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy."

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"Delayed gratification is what makes a man."

"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."

"Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension."

"I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside."

"Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up."

"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."

"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."

"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."

"We need to mature in the knowledge of God and His word, and then our faith will grow as well."

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people."

"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy, a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

"All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy."