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There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.
Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”
Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.
Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.
Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.
The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.
The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.
Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.
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.
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.