Mature Quotes - Page 35

• In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Hair, Oil

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.124, Velvet Element Books

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• One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Funny, Self, Understanding

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• Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

  Rajneesh

  Summer, Spiritual, Sweet

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• Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Parenting, Two, Age

  "Jen in single parent debate". www.cosmopolitan.com. Aug 13, 2010.

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• Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Children, People, Getting Older

  "Christina Aguilera: 'I Embrace My Body' Through Aging and Motherhood". Interview with Jessica Herndon, people.com. October 16, 2012.

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• We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Faithful, Contradiction, Accepting

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Class, Society

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

  Neil Simon

  Character, Play, Personality

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

  Maura Tierney

  Boys, Men, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Religious, Emotional, Thinking

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• A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Creativity, Stupidity, Fantasy

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• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Immature, Environmental, Tissues

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• People always grow and mature.

  Jesse Jackson

  People, Grows

  Interview with Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 08, 2009.

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• Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Self, Inner Peace, Understanding

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• The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

  Zong Qinghou

  Profit Margin, Limits, Lows

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• I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate...often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them.

  Mark Driscoll

  Opportunity, Maturity, Self

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• Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Believe, Godly

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• Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  "Cyndi Lauper: This much I know". Interview with Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• My ex-girl told me, "I love you so much, and I know it's just a phase you're going through." When a woman comes at you like that, you look at her as being so mature because she understands if I'm cheating, it's not her problem, it's mine. When a man cheats, it's not a reflection of what she's not.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Girl, Cheating, Love You

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

  Kate Bush

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

  Liz Phair

  Kids, Who I Am, Important

  "Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
  We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Catholic, Ego

  Pope Benedict XVI's Homily during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

  Robert Morgan

  Book, Three, Volume

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• Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

  Taylor Momsen

  Girl, Boys

  "Iron Maiden". Interview With Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. July 27, 2009.

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• If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doors, Deception, Enemy

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