Maturity Quotes - Page 14

• The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

  Tim Curry

  Dream, Regret, Youth

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Perfect, Age, Silly Person

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky:
  So was it when my life began;
  So is it now I am a man;
  So be it when I shall grow old,
  Or let me die!
  The Child is father of the Man;
  I could wish my days to be
  Bound each to each by natural piety.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Children, Father

  "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

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• Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

  S. J. Perelman

  Love, Squash, Tomatoes

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• The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.

  Heber J. Grant

  Father, Men, Light

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• The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

  Brennan Manning

  Vacation, Years, Class

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.45, Multnomah

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• From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.

  David Berg

  People, Heaven, Vision

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• 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.

  Walter Lippmann

  Discovery, Names, Intuition

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

  Dave Ramsey

  Delay, Pleasure, Results

  Dave Ramsey (2009). “The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Reflection, Long, Childhood

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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Political

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

  Frank Griswold

  Past, Order, Challenges

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• Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

  Ann Landers

  Long, Judgment, Bigs

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• I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Exercise, Thinking, America

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• I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  People, Cypriots, Interaction

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2013

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• God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

  John Donne

  God, Autumn, Moon

  John Donne (1963). “John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Age, Liquid

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.91, Knopf

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• A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.

  Albert Mohler

  Biblical, Men, Church

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• When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

  Dennis Prager

  Emotion

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• Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

  Anais Nin

  Family, Compassion, Parent

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

  J. I. Packer

  Creativity, Resilience, Compounds

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• One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Inexperience, Weakness

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• Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

  Rick Warren

  Real, Hands, Complacency

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• And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Alive, Tests

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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