858 Quotes About Maturity

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

A few people of integrity can go a long way.