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Maturity Quotes
"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."
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"The maturity of man-that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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"Delayed gratification is what makes a man."
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"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."
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"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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"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."
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"I'm sorry I changed, life forced me to grow."
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"A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification."
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"Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn to those who are greater yet. That is why it does not cease to be difficult, but also why it will not cease to grow."
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"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
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"Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman."
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"Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up."
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"The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them."
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"A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person's bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests."
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"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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"Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control."
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"Overcofidence and ignorance are the root causes of sexuall dissatisfaction in the world today."
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"It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them."
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"Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character."
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"Being "appropriate means being suitable, fitting, relevant, or proper in a situation. What may be appropriate in one circumstance can be terribly inappropriate in another. How does one discern? Sometimes it is simply a matter of maturity and experience."
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"Be yourself. Never try to be someone else, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself."
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"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."
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"Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost."
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"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."
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"You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them."
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"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."
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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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"Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity."
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"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."
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"This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray.""Go astray?""Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure."
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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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"Spiritual maturity testifies of one's level of patience."
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"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
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"You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind."
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"Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us."
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"Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas."
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