Maturity Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.

  Earl Nightingale

  Adversity, Successful, People

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• Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

  Eliphas Levi

  Flower, Simple, Joy

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• Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Integrity, Moving, Giving

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• On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

  Tom Lehrer

  Trying, Bypass, Adolescence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

  Delano Johnson

  Responsibility, Men, Care

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• Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Country, Feet, Giving

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• If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Perseverance, Yoga, Practice

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• Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Mean, Differences, People

  M. Fethullah Gulen, Ali Unal (2007). “Pearls of Wisdom”, p.88, Tughra Books

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• Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Yoga, Practice, People

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• Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mind, Belief

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.62, Shambhala Publications

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• When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Joy, Fruit, Fullness

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “失群的鳥”

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• Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

  Learned Hand

  Years, Outcomes, Retrospect

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

  Erica Jong

  Years, Sixteen, Poet

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• Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls "make up" and politics calls "character" - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Character, Opportunity

  "Play Ball: 7 Lessons From Baseball for Politics" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Couple, Book

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• My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great.

  Juliette Binoche

  Thinking, Intuition, Helpful

  "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

  Guido Westerwelle

  Growing Up, Military, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.

  Seth Klarman

  Forever, Expecting

  "Jason Zweig Interviews Seth Klarman At CFA Institute Annual Conference". Interview with Jason Zweig, www.gurufocus.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.

  Seth Klarman

  Debt, Catalyst, Dependence

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• To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Inspirational, Giving, Parent

  Ernest Kurtz (2010). “Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous”, p.131, Hazelden Publishing

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• The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Strong, Thoughtful

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Lasts, Manipulation

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