858 Quotes About Maturity

Finding yourself takes concentrating the Mind and freeing the Soul. Finding what is takes freeing the Mind and concentrating the Soul.

I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at some seeming maturity when I was past thirty. It was only in my forties that I really began to feel young. By then I was ready for it.

Growing up is a hard business, and it is a heart business.

I can rid myself of ‘all of the death’ that is all around me by getting out of the way of all of the things that ‘all of that death’ was attempting to birth within me.

The ripe fruit falls from the tree, it doesn't know what else to do.

The more one knows, the sooner one grows old,” Midnight returned cheerfully.

To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

There is no true loss in authentic growth, only the natural process of letting go, outgrowing, pruning. The call of the next level requires it. Those who resist the connective opportunities that life brings to grow to their next level, never reach the mental maturity height to acquire it...even when they think they are on the path, their gap in understanding leaves them stuck where they left off, usually on a deadmilled-treadmill.