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If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it
While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.
I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
I love wearing black, especially leather or even faux leather! It just adds edge and a sense of class and maturity to your outfit!
Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13.
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.
If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.
I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.
I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.
While other stone fruits grow tender on the surface as they ripen, apricots take an alternate path to maturity, softening from the inside out.
Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.
I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.