#mature

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#better man #five #good #hope #humanity

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#mature #more #painful #solitude #young

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#immature #mature #poets #steal

One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat. ↗

— Carrie Butler

#crossover-fiction #mark-of-nexus #mature-ya #new-adult #paranormal

My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin. ↗

— Carrie Butler

#crossover-fiction #mark-of-nexus #mature-ya #new-adult #paranormal

I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way. ↗

— Carrie Butler

#crossover-fiction #mark-of-nexus #mature-ya #new-adult #paranormal

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#become #change #claus #domesticated #god

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

#culture #false #fatal #forms #growth

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature. ↗

— Bill Budge

#crummy #doing #done #finally #future

I feel more mature than most people my age. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#feel #i #i feel #mature #more