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• I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Long, Catholic

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish.  Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

  Thomas Merton

  Love Is, Perfection, Our Love

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.85, Liturgical Press

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• I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.

  Marlen Haushofer

  Waiting, Anxiety, Bud

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• Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Prayer, Break

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• Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But there are many people, millions of them, who never grow beyond their childhoods. They remain stuck somewhere, and they still need a father and a mother. Hence God is called the Father or the Mother. They need a divine Father to protect them; they are not mature enough to be on their own. They need some security.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Father, Men

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• I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

  Henry Ford

  Age, Raw Materials, Generations

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• My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall into infatuation. And if you manage to make a connection and attach to each other during infatuation, you'll move into mature, unconditional love.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Pain, Moving, Fall

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• The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

  Erving Goffman

  Fate, Self, Fundamentals

  "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 252, 1959.

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• Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Empowerment, Intuition

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Keys, Three, Use

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• I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Order, Space, People

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

  Hugh Downs

  Research, Introspection, Insight

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• We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Leader, Church, Scripture

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• Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dating, Get Better, Trying

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.482, St. Martin's Press

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• Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Maturity

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• I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Beautiful, Stupid

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• My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.

  Tony Harrison

  Memories, Crazy, Halloween

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• I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• 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!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Maturity, Company, Chum

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• Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
  I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Simple, Thinking

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• The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mother, Teenage, Father

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

  John Steinbeck

  Maturity, People, Travels With Charley

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Done, Littles

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