Maturity Quotes - Page 7

• A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

  Franz Bardon

  Levels, Accepting, Force

  "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 55, 1956.

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• What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Life Lesson, Eye

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• The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Journey, Years, People

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• Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

  Jane Austen

  Self, Growth, Mindfulness

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• One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

  Ann Landers

  Want, Characteristics, Young

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• Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

  Richard L. Evans

  Responsibility, Action, Accepting

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• Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

  Brendan Fehr

  Growing Up, Distance, Heart

  "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

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• If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Jobs, Mature Person

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.270, Routledge

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• You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

  Romy Schneider

  Wise, Actresses, Said

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  Alvin Lustig

  Mistake, Learning, Acceptance

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• I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate...often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them.

  Mark Driscoll

  Opportunity, Self, People

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• You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ifs, Nothingness

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• One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

  Hugh Prather

  Taken, Procrastination, Elements

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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• Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Perfect

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• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

  Hermann Hesse

  Doe, Live For Others, Youth

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• Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

  Lewis Mumford

  Dream, Regret, Impossible Things

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Bryan White

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Responsibility, Parenting

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• I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

  Penelope Lively

  Believe, Childhood, Frozen

  Penelope Lively (2006). “Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

  Rick Warren

  Commitment, Live Your Life, Feelings

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2015

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• Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Nice, Winning

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• The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Spiritual, Humility, Apology

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• There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Discipline, Suffering

  D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.72, Baker Academic

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• Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Disappointment, Contradiction, Enormous

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