You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.
The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me. '
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to find value in interacting with the sharing economy on many levels. And this hybrid system that's already emerging among millennials is going to be a mature system where, by midcentury, part of the day will be in the capitalist market, part of the day in the sharing economy, depending on your marginal costs.
The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.
To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.
I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.