- Maturity is perseverance, sweating out a project despite setbacks. It is unselfishness, responding to the needs of others.
― Anonymous - Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.
― Anonymous - Maturity is the ability to live in peace with what we cannot change.
― Anonymous - Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
― Michael Crichton - One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
― Virginia Woolf - People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn’t want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, If this were the Middle Ages, you’d be married and you’d own a farm with about a million chickens on it. They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
― Heather O’Neill - That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
― Philip Pullman - The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
― Albert Ellis - The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
― Bertolt Brecht - The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
― Anonymous - The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
― Carlos Castaneda - The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
― Peter De Vries - There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.
― Shannon L. Alder - To be mature you have to realize what you value most. Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
― Eleanor Roosevelt - To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
― Henri Bergson - We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
― Eleanor Roosevelt - We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
― Anais Nin - We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice that is, until we stop saying ‘It got lost,’ and say ‘I lost it.’
― Sydney J. Harris - When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – attributed in error.
― Mark Twain - You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
― Ethel Barrymore
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