Maturity Quotes - Page 28

• He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Art, Skills, Boyhood

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.183, e-artnow

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• She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

  Woody Allen

  Sweaters, Causes, Yaks

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Childhood, Stories

  "Wilderness".

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• We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Long, People

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• In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.

  Tom Robbins

  Struggle, Home, Men

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• I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Order, Eggs

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• For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Progress, Culture, World

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

  Richard Ford

  Peculiar, Admitting, Way

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.77, A&C Black

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• You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Please, Ifs, Display

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• To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Battle, Adults

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Morning, Sleep

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your “I” is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary “I.” No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Forever, Ordinary

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• To my everlasting relief, he’d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray starch, but I point-blank refused to touch the stuff after a while. He finally gave up doing it himself, and I manfully restrained myself from pointing out that the world didn’t explode when he did. And they say maturity is just for adults.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Military, Years, Adults

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• And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Lying, Order

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

  Carol Shields

  Selfish, Years, Wish

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mistake, Age, Devil

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2011). “The Midnight Palace”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

  Dan Brown

  Emotional, Brain, Special

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.381, Knopf

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• Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, Doubt, Preparation

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Doe, Moral

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Baby, Children

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• Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Mirrors

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• It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Southern, Charity, Explanation

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