#maturity

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#immaturity #inconsistencies #men #testimony #their

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ideal #immaturity #many

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#back #called #country #creditors #dates

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#frequently #maturity #more #most #often

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bear #being #carry #duty #even

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bypass #i #maturity #senility #trying

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#brought #city #conscious #country #find

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#become #father #father figure #figure #girlfriends