Mature Quotes - Page 9

• To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

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• It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

  Norman Lear

  Change, Making A Difference, Desire

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• The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Maturity, Effort

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.

  Donald Cram

  Reading, Book, Science

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• What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The fully matured man has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Love You, Men

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.159, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That`s how maturity comes. Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor. I cannot melt it. I can simply show you how you can drop it.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Maturity, Reality

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.160, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Prayer, Break

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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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• 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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• 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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• We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Judging, Age, Young

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.26, Random House

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• There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

  Diana Peterfreund

  Giving Up, Maturity, Wanted

  Diana Peterfreund (2009). “TAP & GOWN (EBK)”, p.264, Delta

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• The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

  Wilhelm Stekel

  Inspirational, Maturity, Men

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• Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Optimism, Investing

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• For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during approximately the last 21 years with the greatest care and with very accurate instruments at a more mature age, until I was fifty years of age, those I call the observations of my manhood, completely valid and absolutely certain, and this is my opinion of them.

  Tycho Brahe

  Science, Years, Age

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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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• Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two.

  Nigidius Figulus

  Mean, Maturity, Two

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• The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Inspirational, Maturity, Focus

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• The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

  Leo Baeck

  Maturity, Men, Giving

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• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

  Anthony Storr

  Mean, People, Personality

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

  Lauren Bacall

  Running, Country, Memorable

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• Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.

  Wayne Mack

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.

  Jim Brown

  Teacher, Teaching, Age

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