858 Quotes About Maturity

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

Newspaper publishers profit greatly from the widespread belief that reading newspapers gives others the impression that one is smart or at least mature.

A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.

Trials don't come to take what you have, they come to supply what you lack