I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.
Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up
I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.
While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.
There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
maturity. . . is letting things happen.
Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.
Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they may otherwise learn to discount or overlook. We can also offer and model for them definitions of maturity, masculinity, health and success that will enable them to remain grounded in their self-knowledge (e. g. as they encounter societal pressures to conform to group and cultural norms), and to form relationships that will sustain rather than constrain them.