Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.

The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

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

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