"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."

Maturity, Wisdom, Experience, Growth

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"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."

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"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."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Maturity, Love, Acceptance, Realization, Freedom

"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished."

Lois McMaster Bujold, American Writer

Maturity, Growth, Life, Learning

"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Maturity, Responsibility, Guilt, Reflection

"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

Maturity, Aging, Learning, Wisdom, Experience

"Raging over something that is invaluable can portray an individual's sense of immaturity and lack of understanding about his or her actual needs for survival."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

Maturity, Anger, Understanding, Values

"You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

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"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."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

Maturity, Childhood, End, Growth

"You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness."

Cheryl Strayed, American Writer

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"For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress - to the future."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

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"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."

Equality

"Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship."

Loneliness

"I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to their flat at all: that the ties between Nelson and his wife are bitterly close, and never to be broken in their lives. They are tied by the closest of all bonds, neurotic pain-giving; the experience of pain dealt and received; pain as an aspect of love; apprehended as a knowledge of what the world is, what growth is.Nelson is about to leave his wife; he will never leave her. She will wail at being rejected and abandoned; she does not know she will never be rejected."

Relationship

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

Friendship

"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this."

Politics

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

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"Women often get dropped from memory, and then history."

History

"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."

Borrowing

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

Fool

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

Sin