#maturity

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. ↗

— Terri Apter

#combining #irresponsibility #maturity #permission #physical

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#doing #every #found #freedom #grow

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ↗

— Joshua L. Liebman

#immediate #long-term #maturity #person #pleasures

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

#being #both #brought #consciousness #feminine

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age? ↗

— Stephen King

#age

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#aging #children #marriage #maturity #parenting

I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact? ↗

— Kenneth Cain

#cynicism #idealism #maturity #age

Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy. ↗

— Bob Flaherty

#maturity #age

Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students. ↗

— Molly Harper

#jane-jameson #kindergarten #maturity #molly-harper #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs

Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up?? ↗

— bheng

#immaturity #age