To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.
Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.
Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.
Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
If men had more up top we'd need less up front
Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. Heshe cannot stick it out because heshe has not grown up.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. No one knows what he can do till he tries.