Mature Quotes - Page 7

• I don't know. Haven't I always been mature?

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Havens, Knows

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• In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Masters, Equal, Servant

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Tired

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Spiritual, Kids, Native American

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• A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

  Jean Helion

  Artist, Achievement, Awareness

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• How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

  Josh McDowell

  Love, Giving, Development

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• The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.

  Carl Rogers

  Creativity, Mean, Men

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Understanding, Waste, Realizing

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• So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man." "Yep" "What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Talking, Mountain

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• Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.

  Kim Do-Jin

  Drama, Boys, Color

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• On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

  John Stuart Mill

  Hurtful, Opinion, Consideration

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.20, 谷月社

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• Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

  Chris Brasher

  School, Office, Shapes

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• I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

  Maria Callas

  Girl, Play, Young Friends

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• The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Maturity, Glowing, Males

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• Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Maturity, Mature Person, Independence

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• The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Games, Worry

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• I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was

  Gerard Jones

  Maturity, Class, Sound

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• A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

  Jack Kornfield

  Kindness, Acceptance, Compassion

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• In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Self Esteem, Ego

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.

  Rob Jackson

  Pain, Believe, Apology

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• To the garden of the world anew descending,
  Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
  The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
  Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,
  The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
  amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
  My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  Existing I peer and penetrate still,
  Content with the present, content with the past,
  By my side or back of me Eve following,
  Or in front, and I following her just the same.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Spring

  Walt Whitman, “To The Garden The World”

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• I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

  Philip Roth

  Beautiful, Breakup, Thinking

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• LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Revenge, Injury, Forbearance

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.707, Library of America

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• Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Strong

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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