Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.
The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.
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 ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong. " And, when heshe is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so. "
. . . for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble. . . grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.
Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two.
Woman submits to her fate; man makes his
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.
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.
People say, "Age is just a number. " A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.
Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.
Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.
One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.
Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.